Overview: "The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological and literary i
The Essential Homer (Hackett Classics)
โ Scribed by Homer; Lombardo, Stanley; Murnaghan, Sheila
- Book ID
- 110511201
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 377 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780872205406
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Selections from bothIliadandOdyssey, made with an eye for those episodes that figure most prominently in the study of mythology.
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