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Ithaca House
Ithaca most commonly refers to: * Homer's Ithaca, an island featured in Homer's ''Odyssey'' * Ithaca (island), an island in Greece, possibly Homer's Ithaca *Ithaca, New York, a city, and home of Cornell University and Ithaca College Ithaca, Ithaka or Ithica may also refer to: Places Australia * Ithaca, Queensland, a neighbourhood in Brisbane ** Ithaca Division, a former local government area ** Shire of Ithaca, a former local government area ** Town of Ithaca, a former local government area *Ithaca Creek, a creek in Brisbane * Ithaca Creek State School, Bardon, Brisbane Greece * Ithaca (polis), an ancient city United States * Ithaca, Georgia, a place in Georgia *Ithaca, Michigan *Ithaca, Nebraska * Ithaca (town), New York, a town in Tompkins County *Ithaca Pottery Site, an archaeological site in New York * Ithaca, Ohio * Ithaca, Wisconsin, a town **Ithaca (community), Wisconsin, in the town Education *Ithaca High School (Michigan) *Ithaca City School District, New York ** ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homer's Ithaca
Ithaca (; Greek: Ιθάκη, ''Ithakē'') was, in Greek mythology, the island home of the hero Odysseus. The specific location of the island, as it was described in Homer's ''Odyssey'', is a matter for debate. There have been various theories about its location. Modern Ithaca has traditionally been accepted to be Homer's island. One recent alternative candidate is Paliki, which may have been an island separated from the rest of Kefalonia, as argued by Bittlestone, Diggle and Underhill in ''Odysseus Unbound''. This theory, however, has not been generally accepted on grounds of geology, archaeology, philology, or historical and Homeric analysis. “What is clearly missing,” wrote Dr Christine Haywood reviewing ''Odysseus Unbound'', “is a good knowledge of the complexities of Homeric language, and the support of archaeology.”''Classics Ireland'', vol. 14 (2007), p. 90. The central characters of the epic such as Odysseus, Achilles, Agamemnon and Hector are sometimes believed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ithaca, Wisconsin
Ithaca is a town in Richland County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 648 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated communities of Aubrey, Bear Valley, Ithaca, Keyesville, and Neptune are located in the town. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 36.0 square miles (93.3 km2), all of it land. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 648 people, 249 households, and 187 families residing in the town. The population density was 18.0 people per square mile (6.9/km2). There were 275 housing units at an average density of 7.6 per square mile (2.9/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 98.61% White, 0.15% African American, 0.62% Asian, and 0.62% from two or more races. There were 249 households, out of which 31.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 67.5% were married couples living together, 4.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.5% were non-families. 20.5% of all house ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Project Ithaca
''Project Ithaca'' is a 2019 Canadian science fiction thriller film directed by Nicholas Humphries and starring James Gallanders. Plot The film begins in a secret government lab run by the U.S. War Department, where a mysterious young girl is shown interfacing with alien technology recovered during the Roswell UFO incident. The young girl has strong telepathic abilities, and is able to relate her experiences in the alien device by typing them out on a computer monitor. The girl, called Sera, begins to die due to her interaction with the machine, and is rescued by a researcher named John. The film then switches to a diverse group of humans aboard a UFO orbiting Earth, where the group is being held against their will. Each human is restrained separately, in a harness where their arms and legs are restrained by black tentacles. The tentacles tighten as they resist, and the energy created by their emotional responses is harnessed by the ship. When the humans fail to have enough emoti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ithaca (film)
''Ithaca'' is a 2015 American drama film directed by Meg Ryan and written by Erik Jendresen. It is based on the 1943 novel '' The Human Comedy'' by William Saroyan. The film stars Alex Neustaedter, Jack Quaid, Meg Ryan, Sam Shepard, Hamish Linklater and Tom Hanks. The film was released on September 9, 2016, by Momentum Pictures. Plot In 1942, Homer Macauley (Alex Neustaedter) is a boy determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger of the small fictional town of Ithaca, CA. His older brother, Marcus (Jack Quaid), along with most of the young men of the town, has gone to serve in World War II, leaving the families worried. His father (Tom Hanks) has died recently in the war and the boy has to take care of his widowed mother (Meg Ryan), his older sister and his 4-year-old brother. Homer delivers letters that bring messages of love, wishes, pain, and death, hoping that one of them announces the return of his brother. Cast *Alex Neustaedter as Homer Macauley *Meg Ry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adèle Geras
Adèle Daphne Geras (née Weston; born 15 March 1944) is an English writer for young children, teens and adults. Early life Geras was born in Jerusalem, British Mandatory Palestine to British Jewish parents. Her father (later a lawyer and High Court judge in Tanganyika) was in the Colonial Service and she had a varied childhood, living in countries such as Nigeria, Cyprus, Tanganyika (now the mainland part of Tanzania), Gambia and British North Borneo in a short span of time. She attended Roedean School in Brighton and then graduated from St Hilda's College, Oxford with a degree in Modern Languages. She was known for her stage and vocal talents, but decided instead to become a full-time writer. Work Geras's first book was ''Tea at Mrs Manderby's'', which was published in 1976. Her first full-length novel was ''The Girls in the Velvet Frame''. She has written more than 95 books for children, young adults, and adults. Other works include ''Troy'' (shortlisted for the Whitbrea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Technology In The Dune Universe
Technology is a key aspect of the fictional setting of the ''Dune (franchise), Dune series'' of science fiction novels written by Frank Herbert, and derivative works. Herbert's concepts and inventions have been analyzed and deconstructed in at least one book, ''The Science of Dune'' (2008). Herbert's originating 1965 novel ''Dune (novel), Dune'' is popularly considered one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time,Touponce, William F. (1988), ''Frank Herbert'', Boston, Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers imprint, G. K. Hall & Co, pg. 119, . "''Locus (magazine), Locus'' ran a poll of readers on April 15, 1975 in which ''Dune'' 'was voted the all-time best science-fiction novel…It has sold over ten million copies in numerous editions.'" and is frequently cited as the best-selling science fiction novel in history. ''Dune'' and its five sequels by Herbert explore the complex and multilayered interactions of politics, religion, ecology and technology, among ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Human Comedy (novel)
''The Human Comedy'' is a 1943 novel by William Saroyan. It originated as a 240-page film script written for MGM. Saroyan was planning to produce and direct the film, but he was dropped from the project either because the script was too long or because a short film he directed as a test was not considered acceptable — or both. He walked off the lot, went home, and swiftly created a novelization, which was published just before the film came out. It was the March 1943 Book-of-the-Month Club selection, and became a best-seller a week after its release. Saroyan won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film, '' The Human Comedy''. In 1999 the novels ''The human comedy'', ''The adventures of Wesley Jackson'' and Saroyan's memoirs ''Here comes, there goes, you know who'' were translated into Russian and published in Moscow. Plot Homer Macauley is a 14-year-old boy growing up fatherless in the San Joaquin Valley of California during World War II. His oldest brother, Marcus, is of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ithaca (poem)
"Ithaca" is a 1911 poem by Constantine P. Cavafy that is generally considered his best-known work. Based on the homeward journey of Odysseus in Homer's ''Odyssey'', the poem gained a global audience upon its 1994 reading at the funeral of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Poem "Ithaca" loosely follows the journey of Odysseus in Homer's ''Odyssey''. Cavafy wrote an early version of the poem in 1894, titled "A Second Odyssey". He revised the poem into its final state in October 1910. "Ithaca was published in November 1911. It was included as the ninth of forty poems in Cavafy's ''Poems 1905-1915''. Cavafy had written a number of poems inspired by traditional works of ancient Greek literature in his early years as a poet, but by 1903 had largely shifted his focus to more obscure elements of Ancient Greek history, including far-flung outposts such as in Persia. Poems based on Homer's works were the only influenced by traditional classic Greek works that he included in his ''Poems 1905-1915 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ithaca (Ulysses Episode)
''Ulysses'' is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. Parts of it were first serialized in the American journal ''The Little Review'' from March 1918 to December 1920, and the entire work was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce's 40th birthday. It is considered one of the most important works of modernist literature and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement." According to Declan Kiberd, "Before Joyce, no writer of fiction had so foregrounded the process of thinking". ''Ulysses'' chronicles the appointments and encounters of the itinerant Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem the ''Odyssey'', and the novel establishes a series of parallels between the poem and the novel, with structural correspondences between the characters and experiences of Bloom and Odysseus, Molly Bloom and Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ithaka (play)
''Ithaka'' is a 1996 play by the German writer Botho Strauß. It has the subtitle ''Schauspiel nach den Heimkehr-Gesängen der Odyssee'', meaning "play after the homecoming songs from the ''Odyssey''". It tells the story of how Odysseus, the Greek hero from the Trojan War, returns after 20 years to his court in Ithaca, where he massacres the suitors of his wife Penelope to recreate order. Production history The play premiered on 17 July 1996 at the Munich Kammerspiele, directed by Dieter Dorn. It was produced for the Deutsches Theater in Berlin by Thomas Langhoff the following year. Reception Several critics, including Wolfgang Höbel of ''Der Spiegel'' and Rolf Michaelis of ''Die Zeit'', speculated whether the play was related to a passage from Strauß' heavily debated essay "Anschwellender Bocksgesang", about how "blood sacrifice" is the means by which a nation imposes its moral laws, and whether the play thereby has an anti-democratic message. Roland Koberg of the ''Berliner Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ithaca College
Ithaca College is a private college in Ithaca, New York. It was founded by William Egbert in 1892 as a conservatory of music and is set against the backdrop of the city of Ithaca (which is separate from the town), Cayuga Lake, waterfalls, and gorges. The college is best known for its large list of alumni who have played prominent roles in the media and entertainment industries. Ithaca College is internationally known for the Roy H. Park School of Communications, which is ranked by several organizations as a top school for journalism, film, media and entertainment. The college has a strong liberal arts core, and offers several pre-professional programs, along with some graduate programs. Ithaca College has been ranked among the Top 10 masters universities in the "Regional Universities North" category by '' U.S. News & World Report,'' every year since 1996, and was ranked tied at ninth for 2021. Ithaca College is consistently named among the best colleges in the nation by ''Princ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ithaca High School (Ithaca, New York)
Ithaca High School (IHS) is a public high school in Ithaca, New York, USA. It is part of the Ithaca City School District, and has an enrollment of approximately 1,675. The school is located at 1401 North Cayuga Street in the north end of Ithaca, near Stewart Park, Cayuga Lake, and Ithaca Falls. The current principal is Jason Trumble. In 2017, '' U.S. News & World Report'' ranked IHS as the best high school in Central New York, 48th in New York State, and 401st nationwide. History Ithaca High School was founded in 1875 as the successor to the Ithaca Academy, a private school that had operated since the 1820s. In the late 19th and early 20th century, the school had a significant side business as a tuition-charging college preparatory school; then-Cornell University President Jacob Gould Schurman called it "one of the finest in the Northeast." A new building for the high school on the site of the former academy was built in 1885; that building burned on February 14, 1912. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
