The Adventures of Odysseus (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Adventures of Odysseus It has been our aim in this book to reproduce the substance of Homer's Odyssey in simple modern English. 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, Athena and Odysseus rather than the Latin forms, Jupiter Minerva and Ulysses which claim to represent them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.