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Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Cyclops

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Homer's Hymn to VenusEpigramsThe Cyclops A Satyric Drama Translated from the Greek of Euripides Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824; dated 1819.…

The Odyssey: Telemachus and His Mother Meet

Ulysses Reveals Himself to Telemachus. The Fight with Irus--Ulysses ... Telemachus and His Mother Meet--Ulysses and Eumaeus Come Down to the Town, and Ulysses is Insulted by Melanthius--He is…

Tenure of Office Act

(Encyclopedia) Tenure of Office Act, in U.S. history, measure passed on Mar. 2, 1867, by Congress over the veto of President Andrew Johnson; it forbade the President to remove any federal…

Vancouver, city, United States

(Encyclopedia) Vancouver, city (1990 pop. 46,380), seat of Clark co., SW Wash., on the Columbia River opposite Portland, Oreg., with which it is connected by bridges; inc. 1857. A rapidly growing…