The Iliad + The Odyssey Collection
Homer’s twin epics, together in one volume. Presented here in the Alexander Pope translations.
The Iliad tells the story of the Trojan War. Paris, the prince of Troy, has stolen off with Helen, the beautiful wife of Menelaus, the King of Sparta. He leads a coalition of Greek states in a ten-year-long siege of Troy, with the poem picking up the story in the tenth year, and telling of the rivalry between Agamemnon and Achilles.
In The Odyssey, in the aftermath of the events of the Trojan war, Ulysses sets sail with his men for the shores of Ithaca, his home, but a failure to properly honour the gods enrages them, and Poseidon exacts revenge on Ulysses, keeping…
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December 6, 2016Homer was a Greek poet, recognized as the author of the great epics, the Iliad, the story of the siege of Troy, and the Odyssey, the tale of Ulysses’s wanderings.
The Iliad
Homer Homer
The Odyssey
Homer
The Iliad
Homer
The Odyssey
Homer
The Iliad
Homer, Translated by W.H.D. Rouse with an Introduction by Seth L. Schein and an Afterword by Adam Nicolson
The Odyssey
Homer, Translated by W.H.D. Rouse with an Introduction by Deborah Steiner and an Afterword by Adam Nicolson
The Iliad
Homer; Translated by E. V. Rieu; Revised by Peter Jones and D. C. H. Rieu; Introduction & Notes by Peter Jones; Cover illustrated by Coralie Bickford-Smith
The Odyssey
Homer
The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid Box Set
Homer; Virgil; Translated by Robert Fagles; Introduction and Notes by Bernard Knox
The Anger of Achilles
Homer; Translated with an Introduction by Robert Graves
The Odyssey
Homer
The Iliad
Homer