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.
Same (ancient Greece) Same (Greek: Σάμη ), also Samos (Σάμος) is an Ancient Greek name of a Homeric island in the Ionian Sea, near Ithaca and Cephalonia. In Homer's Odyssey Same is described as part of Odysseus's kingdom together with Ithaca, Dulichium, and Zacynthus. The Iliad, book II, in the Catalogue of Ships, contains a different list of islands comprising Odysseus's kingdom. Same is included together with Ithaca, Neritum, Krocylea, Aegilips and Zacynthus, indicating that the "Catalogue of Ships" could be a later addition to the Iliad.