THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER—Translated by George Herbert Palmer;illustrated by N. C. Wyeth—Houghton Mifflin ($5.00). As fewer and fewer people read Greek, translations of the Greek classics become ...
The Odyssey is one of the oldest recorded stories in existence, dating back to the 7th or 8th century BCE. Homer's epic poem in 24 books follows the King of Ithaca around the Mediterranean as he ...