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From the back cover: THE ODYSSEY TRANSLATED BY E. V. RIEU Homer's The Odyssey is a dazzling mixture of magic and mystery, adventure and great deeds. In a world often far removed from the harsh reality of The Iliad, Homer tells of the return of the hero Odysseus from the Trojan War. Traditional Greek folktales are skilfully interwoven with original ideas to create an adventure-story and a quest worthy of any medieval or modern writer. For Odysseus's journey is scarcely straightforward: he has to undergo the wrath of the sea-god Poseidon, fight monsters, overcome sexual distractions and the loss of his crew - only to find further trials to deal with when he finally reaches his native land of Ithaca. E. V. Rieu's best-selling prose translation captures both the delicacy and drama of the episodes and allows the freshness and excitement of Homer's well-knit plot, with its interplay of subtly delineated characters, to delight us as much as it did the ancient Greeks. The cover shows a detail from 'Odysseus… Read More