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DVD : The Odyssey (Animated Version)In association with Amazon.com List Price: $9.95 Price: $1.80 You Save: $8.15 (82%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 0066479101839 Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: Goldhill Home Media Manufacturer: Goldhill Home Media Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Goldhill Home Media Release Date: December 14, 1999 Running Time: 55 minutes Studio: Goldhill Home Media Theatrical Release Date: 1999 Sales Rank: 28939 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - The Odyssey? Try "Brain-cell-lossity"!I had purchased this video with the high hopes of having a third source to compare/contrast with the Hallmark Odyssey and the excerpts in the Literature book I use with my 9th graders...HOWEVER, I think I lost more IQ points watching this video than I did in my "Math for Dummies" course in college! Frankly, I remember watching a "Ducktails" version of "The Odyssey" that was truer to the text than this video. I tried out the interactive quiz that is included on the DVD and ... Read More Rating:  - If you like the Odyssey, don't watch this!The back of the packaging reads, ". . . [Odysseus'] faithful wife, Penelope, is wooed by many ambitious Princelings who hope to capture his throne. . . ." Oddly, this version of the Odyssey has neither a "Penelope" waiting for him at home, nor ambitious suitors vying for his throne. Instead, the young princess, "Nausicaa," whom Odysseus meets on the isle of "Phaeacia" (6.127-), in this version of the story, is named "Penelope" and, in as strange an addition as I've ever seen, Odysseus must rescue her ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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