Homer

I-3I ERSTER GESANG Inhalt. Katschluss der Götter, dass Odysseus, welchen Poseidon verfolgt, von Kalypsos Insel Ogygia heimkehre. Athene, in Mentes' Gestalt, den Tele' machos besuchend, rät ihm, in Pylos und Sparta nach dem Vater sich zu er^ kundigen und die schwelgenden Freier aus dem Hause...

Preface In assessing the Iliad as a literary work for a mixed, but largely non-specialist, pubUc, I have had occasion to discuss various issues rather differently from the way that writers on Homer usually discuss them. In the process, I have said some new things about the Iliad, which I hope...

PREFACE My father E. V. Rieu's translation of the Odyssey was published in 1946, as the first of the Penguin Classics series which he founded with Sir Allen Lane. His vision was to make available »"o the ordinary reader, in good modem English, the great classics of every language. When he...