The Best of Homer: The Odyssey and The Iliad

Western literature more or less begins with these two poems, and this two-book set keeps them side by side. The Iliad narrows onto the closing stretch of the Trojan War, where honour, rage and fate press on men who know roughly how their story ends. The Odyssey turns to the long journey home, with monsters, gods and hospitality tested at every stop. Read as a pair they show one culture from the battlefield and from the road, and this edition presents both in accessible English for readers without a classics background. Why read both together: • The Iliad and The Odyssey in a two-volume set • War, honour and fate in the first poem • A long journey home in the second • Accessible English text of the epics attributed to Homer Well suited to students of classics, mythology readers and anyone starting on epic poetry, available from Boipoka.