István Orosz (1951-), Hungarian visual artist, adopted the use of the pseudonym Utisz, a phonemic respelling of the Greek Outis: that is, both are pronounced / utis/.Secretary Outis', he projected and initiated a literary association named, The Hercules Club. As an antiquarian he helped to build up several great American libraries. In 1845 he went to London 'on a book-hunting expedition' and remained there until his death in 1886. Henry Stevens was an American rare book dealer and a graduate of Yale University.Speculation as to the identity of Outis has mentioned Cornelius Felton, Lawrence Labree, and Poe himself. Longfellow remained silent on the matter, but a defender for Longfellow did appear, an anonymous writer who signed his letters only as "Outis". In the New York Evening Mirror (January 14, 1845), Edgar Allan Poe denounced the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow as a plagiarist.
JSTOR ( July 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification. "I should thus have some revenge for the harm that no-good Nobody has done me". "Are you sorry because that wicked Nobody brought your master down with drink and blinded him?". But make your prayer to your father, lord Poseidon". Force there is none." But answering him in winged words they said: "If nobody harms you when you are left alone, illness which comes from mighty Zeus you cannot fly. Then in his turn from out the cave big Polyphemus answered: "Friends, Nobody is murdering me by craft. So I spoke, and from a ruthless heart he straightway answered: "Nobody I eat up last, after his comrades all the rest first and that shall be the stranger's gift for you." Nobody I am called by mother, father, and by all my comrades." "Cyclops, you asked my noble name, and I will tell it but do you give the stranger's gift, just as you promised. Use of the name "Nobody" can be found in five different lines of Book 9. The story of the Cyclops can be found in the Odyssey, book 9 (in the Cyclopeia). When they shouted back, inquiring whether Polyphemus was in danger, he replied that "Nobody" was trying to kill him, so presuming that he was not in any danger, none of them came to his rescue. After Odysseus had put out the monster's eye, Polyphemus shouted in pain to the other Cyclopes of the island. Odysseus replied instead that the pronoun was his name in order to trick the monster. The Homeric hero Odysseus used the pseudonym "Outis" when he was fighting the Cyclops Polyphemus and the monster demanded his name. Modern artists, writers, and others in public life have adopted the use of this pseudonym in order to hide their identity and it has been used for fictional characters as well.Īncient Greek origin of the pseudonym Blinding of the Cyclops Outis (a transliteration of the Ancient Greek pronoun Οὖτις = " nobody" or "no one") is an often used pseudonym that appeared famously in Classical Greek legends.
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