The Adventures of Odysseus (Classic Reprint)

It has been our aim in this book to reproduce the substance of Homer s Odyssey in simple modern Enghsh. Told in this way, the story seems to us one which children might understand and enjoy among their earliest fairy-tales. At the same time we hope that such a version may, in many cases, prove more acceptable to older readers than a literal translation. We have not hesitated to omit and compress where we thought fit, but we have done our best to make a faithful translation within our limits, and to keep what we could of the Homeric spirit. We have used in most cases the Greek proper names, as Zeus A tloena and Odysseus rather than the Latin forms, Jupiter Minerva and Ulysses which claim to represent them.
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