Are the "Odyssey" and "The Consul" fundamental to the modern Western canon?
The Consul The Consul is an opera in three acts with music and libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, his first full-length opera.
Voyages extraordinaires The Voyages extraordinaires (literally Extraordinary Voyages or Extraordinary Journeys) is a sequence of fifty-four novels by the French writer Jules Verne, originally published between 1863 and 1905.