The Odyssey

by Homer

-700 · Homer -- Translations into English, Epic poetry, Greek -- Translations into English, Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character) -- Poetry, Classical Antiquity · 25 chapters

Classical antiquity in 25 chapters by Homer. It opens on Ulysses, with Telemachus and Minerva alongside. It begins: “Both contentions were urged (also without rejoinder) in the Johnian “Eagle” for the Lent and October terms of the same year”.

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