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1  There he married, established himself, and had two famous sons Antiphates and Mantius.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XV
2  Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK I
3  Thus did we converse, and anon Proserpine sent up the ghosts of the wives and daughters of all the most famous men.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XI
4  And I saw Leda the wife of Tyndarus, who bore him two famous sons, Castor breaker of horses, and Pollux the mighty boxer.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XI
5  We never yet heard of such a woman; we know all about Tyro, Alcmena, Mycene, and the famous women of old, but they were nothing to your mother any one of them.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK II
6  A servant presently led in the famous bard Demodocus, whom the muse had dearly loved, but to whom she had given both good and evil, for though she had endowed him with a divine gift of song, she had robbed him of his eyesight.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VIII
7  The only vessel that ever sailed and got through, was the famous Argo on her way from the house of Aetes, and she too would have gone against these great rocks, only that Juno piloted her past them for the love she bore to Jason.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XII