The story of Odysseus in the land of the Phæacians
Being the sixth and a part of the seventh book of the Odyssey.
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| Author: | Homer, Andrew Lang, Prof Samuel Henry Butcher, Nathan Haskell Dole | ISBN: | 1230001719567 |
| Publisher: | Boston : Privately printed by Nathan Haskell Dole | Publication: | June 14, 2017 |
| Imprint: | The Delphic Edition of The Breviary Treasures consists of 475 copies printed on French hand-made paper, of which the source copy of this work is number 152. | Language: | English |
| Author: | Homer, Andrew Lang, Prof Samuel Henry Butcher, Nathan Haskell Dole |
| ISBN: | 1230001719567 |
| Publisher: | Boston : Privately printed by Nathan Haskell Dole |
| Publication: | June 14, 2017 |
| Imprint: | The Delphic Edition of The Breviary Treasures consists of 475 copies printed on French hand-made paper, of which the source copy of this work is number 152. |
| Language: | English |
No other poem in all the literature of the world excels or equals the Odyssey in variety of interest. Its hero is the type of the gallant adventurer, and his journeyings take him into the Fairylands that delight children of a larger growth. Odysseus was the King of Ithaca, and Ithaca was a tiny island west of Greece. He was the most distant of the feudal princes that fought with Agamemnon for the pupose of winning back from Paris of Troy, Helen, the runaway wife of Agamemnon's brother Menelaus. After the ten years' war, which
No other poem in all the literature of the world excels or equals the Odyssey in variety of interest. Its hero is the type of the gallant adventurer, and his journeyings take him into the Fairylands that delight children of a larger growth. Odysseus was the King of Ithaca, and Ithaca was a tiny island west of Greece. He was the most distant of the feudal princes that fought with Agamemnon for the pupose of winning back from Paris of Troy, Helen, the runaway wife of Agamemnon's brother Menelaus. After the ten years' war, which
