The Odyssey Assistant

Answers questions on Homer's Iliad: the wrath of Achilles, Hector and Troy, the gods and the funeral games, quoting Samuel Butler's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.

Answers questions on Machiavelli's The Prince, on gaining and keeping power, quoting W. K. Marriott's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on the Analects of Confucius, sayings on learning, virtue and government, quoting James Legge's English translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.

Answers questions on Plato's Republic: justice, the ideal city and the allegory of the cave, quoting Benjamin Jowett's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.

Answers questions on Thomas Paine's Rights of Man, his defence of the French Revolution and natural rights against Burke, quoting The Writings of Thomas Paine, Volume II from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the part.

Answers questions on Thoreau's essay Civil Disobedience, on conscience and resisting unjust government, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the passage.

Answers questions on W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk: double consciousness, education and the color line, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery: his early life, education and founding of the Tuskegee Institute, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.