Odyssey - Imperium Press (Western Canon)

<p><em>Odyssey </em>is perhaps the greatest adventure story ever told, but it is more even than that. It is the story of a man's homecoming, the story of a yearning for hearth and home, for the familiar and native. It is also a story of burning revenge, of a man's desire to visit retribution on those who have despoiled his patrimony. <em>Odyssey </em>is not the story of an everyman, but a king, and it serves as a moral example to us all.</p><p>In the introduction to this companion to Homer's <em>Iliad</em>, Taerus Atellus approaches the text with a poet's eye, focusing on the aesthetic and poetical dimensions of Homer's masterwork. With facing Greek text and the renowned translation by poet W. C. Bryant, this is the last edition of <em>Odyssey </em>you will ever need to own.</p>