![]() ![]() As Manguel writes, “In a very real sense, The Iliad and The Odyssey are familiar to us prior to opening the first page.” In this graceful and sweeping book, Alberto Manguel traces the lineage of the poems from their inception and first recording. The Iliad and The Odyssey, with their incomparable tales of the Trojan War, brave Achilles, Ulysses and Penelope, the Sirens, the Cyclops, the beautiful Helen of Troy, and the petulant gods, are familiar to most readers because they are so pervasive.įrom Plato to Virgil, Pope to Joyce, the poems have been told and retold, interpreted and embellished. While it is unknown if there ever was a man named Homer, there is no doubt that the epic poems assembled under his name form the cornerstone of Western literature, feeding our imagination for over two and a half millennia. ![]()
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