W. T. Mars
2) The Odyssey
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"When Robert Fagles' translation of the Iliad was published in 1990, critics and scholars alike hailed it as a masterpiece." "Now Robert Fagles presents us with the Odyssey, Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem, recounting the arduous wanderings of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca, after the Trojan War. If the Iliad is the world's greatest war story, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey...
Author
Series
Publisher
Follett Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[1965]
Physical Desc
141 p. col. illus., 4 fold. maps, col. port. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the son of a Genoan weaver who wanted to be a sailor, under the flag of Spain discovered the new world in 1492, and returned on three subsequent voyages.