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    Nostos (Ancient Greek: νόστος, romanized: nostos) is a theme used in Ancient Greek literature, which includes an epic hero returning home, often by sea...
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  • Nostos: The Return (Italian: Nostos: Il ritorno) is a 1989 Italian adventure drama film directed by Franco Piavoli, starring Luigi Mezzanotte [it] and...
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    Ulysses is a modernist novel by the Irish writer James Joyce. Partially serialized in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December...
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    Iliad (section Nostos)
    heroic battle. Yet Achilles must choose only one of the two rewards, either nostos or kleos. In Book 9 (9.410–16), he poignantly tells Agamemnon's envoys—Odysseus...
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    (Ancient Greek: νόστος, nostos) is a central theme of the Odyssey. Anna Bonafazi of the University of Cologne writes that, in Homer, nostos is "return home from...
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  • Prabhu Nosto Ho Jai (English: Lord, I Am Rotting Away) is a 2007 Bengali film directed and produced by Agnidev Chatterjee. The entire movie was shot in...
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    nostalgia is a learned formation of a Greek compound, consisting of νόστος (nóstos), meaning "homecoming", a Homeric word, and ἄλγος (álgos), meaning "pain"...
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    translit. mêtis, lit. "cunning intelligence"). He is most famous for his nostos, or "homecoming", which took him ten eventful years after the decade-long...
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  • The poem comprised five books of verse in dactylic hexameter. The word nostos means "return home". Both the date of composition of the Nostoi and the...
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    extinct genus of ammonites. The etymology of the name Nostoceras comes from "nostos" meaning return and "ceros" meaning horn,[citation needed] named as such...
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