Author
Homer
Almost nothing certain is known about Homer. The ancient Greeks thought of him as a blind singer and argued about where he was born, and scholars still argue about whether one man composed both the “Iliad” and the “Odyssey”. The poem is usually dated to the eighth or seventh century BC; the quotations in this book are given in plain English prose.
Books in Livria
- The Odyssey
Twenty years ago he sailed off to war. The war ended long ago, the survivors are long home, and he is not. In his house more than a hundred strangers eat his cattle and court his wife, while he sits on the shore of a…