Product Description
A new prose rendering of Homer’s Iliad by Wesley J. Callihan, containing all 24 books of this great epic.
Includes
- All 24 books of Homer’s Odyssey, in a new prose rendering by Wesley J. Callihan based on the 1879 translation of Samuel Butcher and Andrew Lang.
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Importance of Homer
- The Historical Background of the Story
- The Nature of the Poem
- How to Read the Odyssey
- What to Read Next
- The Story: Contents and Structure of the Odyssey
- Xenia: the Guest-Host Relationship in the Odyssey
- Major Characters in the Odyssey
- Maps of the Odyssey