The Odyssey (Folio Society)

Published by Folio Society 2015, London, 2015, with slipcase, hardcover, condition: new.

Med. 8vo; pp. lxxxviii, [vi], 493; map endpapers, illustrated frontispiece, text with 8 full page coloured illustrations by Grahame Baker-Smith, 6 pages of b/w. maps, notes, genealogies, textual variants, further reading, pronouncing glossary, bound in original quarter blue cloth, illustrated cloth boards, title lettered in gilt on spine, gilt stamped decoration on boards.

The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the Iliad, the poem is divided into 24 books. It follows the Greek hero Odysseus, king of Ithaca, and his journey home after the Trojan War. After the war, which lasted ten years, his journey from Troy to Ithaca, via Africa and southern Europe, lasted for ten additional years during which time he encountered many perils and all of his crewmates were killed. In his absence, Odysseus was assumed dead, and his wife Penelope and son Telemachus had to contend with a group of unruly suitors who were competing for Penelope's hand in marriage.

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