The Iliad & the Odyssey: In Prose - Homer's Greek Epics with Selected Writings

This epic volume brings together the two greatest adventure stories ever told - Homer's Iliad and Odyssey - the twin heroic poems at the foundation of Western literature, retold here in prose.

The Iliad is Homer's legendary account of the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy, centred on the wrath of Achilles. The Odyssey follows the hero-king Odysseus on his long and perilous voyage home from that same war - beset by monsters, gods, and the sea - to his kingdom of Ithaca and h...