Books with title The Iliad and Odyssey

The story of Odysseuss journey around the mythical world is full of peril, including the potion of the witch Circe and the temptation of the sirens. Following the Trojan War, Odysseus tries to bring 12 ships full of men home to Ithaca, only to arrive 20 years later alone. Readers will live through many trials alongside Odysseus in this fast-paced graphic novel. Depicted in full-color illustration and related through accessible content, Odysseuss feats will engage readers from the beginning of his odyssey to his triumphant return to his homeland.

The Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems which are the central works of ancient Greek literature. The Iliad is set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek states, but focuses on a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles lasting a few weeks during the last year of the war. The Odyssey focuses on the journey home of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, after the fall of Troy.

While Homer's existence as a historical person is still a topic of debate, the writings attributed to the name have made their mark not only on Greek history and literature, but upon western civilization itself. Homer's epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, laid the foundation upon which Ancient Greece developed not only its culture, but its societal values, religious beliefs, and practice of warfare as well. This publication features the Samuel Butler translation, and while it strays from the poetic style reproduced by more well known translators like Robert Fagles and Robert Fitzgerald, the vision of the epics as if they were prose found in modern novels take their best form under Butler's most capable hand.

Follow Odysseus as he hides in the Trojan horse and retakes Troy, fights the Cyclops, or fights enslavement by the sorceress Circe. In MYTHOLOGY OF THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY, author Karen Bornemann Spies details the heroic adventures in both the Iliad and the Odyssey, and includes informative interpretation and expert commentary, as well as a Question and Answer section. This book is developed from THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY to allow republication of the original text into ebook, paperback, and trade editions.

The Iliad is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time. Set during the Trojan War, this timeless poem vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amid devastation and destruction. Homer's tale is a compassionate view of human life lived under the shadow of suffering and death in the face of an often uncaring divinity. To call it a war story does not begin to describe the emotional sweep of its action and characters in the 10th and final year of the Greek siege of Troy. The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. The poem centers on the Greek hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. It takes Odysseus ten years to reach Ithaca after the ten-year Trojan War. Odysseus survives storm and shipwreck, the cave of the Cyclops and the isle of Circe, the lure of the Sirens' song and a trip to the Underworld, only to find his most difficult challenge at home, where treacherous suitors seek to steal his kingdom and his loyal wife, Penelope. The Odyssey is Homers' sequel to the Iliad.