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The Story of the Odyssey
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
By Dr. Edward Brooks, A.M.
370 pages Profusely Illustrated
Cloth Binding, $1.25
White and Silver Edition, $1.50
The Odyssey of Homer combines the romance of travel with that of domestic life, and it differs from the Iliad, which is a tale of the camp and battle-field. Although the ancient author concentrates the attention on a single character—Ulysses—he refers to several beautiful women, including some of the goddesses. After the siege of Troy, Ulysses started on a voyage of discovery and adventure in unknown lands, which, although described with poetic exaggeration, "has been a rich mine of wealth for poets and romancers, painters and sculptors, from the date of the age which we call Homer's down to our own."