A children's retelling of Homer's Odyssey, following Odysseus on his long voyage home after the Trojan War. It introduces his encounters with Calypso, the Phaeacians, the Cyclops, Circe, and the Sirens, while his son Telemachus searches for news of him.
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Opening of the book
Reading Homer
STORIES FROM
THE ODYSSEY
RETOLD BY
H. L. HAVELL B.A.
LATE READER IN ENGLISH IN THE UNIVERSITY OF HALLE
FORMERLY SCHOLAR OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OXFORD
Author of "Stories from Herodotus" "Stories from Greek Tragedy"
"Stories from the Æneid" "Stories from the Iliad" etc.
"O well for him whose will is strong!
He suffers, but he will not suffer long;
He suffers, but he cannot suffer wrong:
For him nor moves the loud world's random mock
Nor all Calamity's hugest waves confound
Who seems a promontory of rock,
That compass'd round with turbulent sound
In middle ocean meets the surging shock,
Tempest-buffeted, citadel-crown'd."
TENNYSON
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION TELEMACHUS, PENELOPE, AND THE SUITORS THE ASSEMBLY; THE VOYAGE OF TELEMACHUS THE VISIT TO NESTOR AT PYLOS TELEMACHUS AT SPARTA ODYSSEUS AND CALYPSO ODYSSEUS AMONG THE PHÆACIANS THE WANDERINGS OF ODYSSEUS THE VISIT TO HADES THE SIRENS; SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS; THRINACIA ODYSSEUS LANDS IN ITHACA ODYSSEUS AND EUMÆUS THE RETURN OF TELEMACHUS THE MEETING OF TELEMACHUS AND ODYSSEUS THE HOME-COMING OF ODYSSEUS THE BEGGAR IRUS PENELOPE AND THE WOOERS ODYSSEUS AND PENELOPE THE END DRAWS NEAR; SIGNS AND WONDERS THE BOW OF ODYSSEUS THE SLAYING OF THE WOOERS
ODYSSEUS AND PENELOPE CONCLUSION PRONOUNCING LIST OF NAMES ILLUSTRATIONS READING FROM HOMER (L. Alma Tadema) PENELOPE (The Vatican, Rome) TELEMACHUS DEPARTING FROM NESTOR (Henry Howard) ODYSSEUS AND NAUSICAÄ (Charles Gleyre) ODYSSEUS AND POLYPHEMUS (J.M.W. Turner) CIRCE (Sir E. Burne-Jones) THE RETURN OF ODYSSEUS (L.F. Schützenberger) ODYSSEUS AND EURYCLEIA (Christian G. Heyne)
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