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Stories from the Odyssey

Name: Stories from the Odyssey
Author: H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell

by H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell, Homer

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Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Release date

2004-10-12

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character) -- Fiction Epic poetry, Greek -- Adaptations Tales -- Greece

About the authors

H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell

d. 1913

Known for lively retellings of Greek epic and history, this late Victorian writer helped make the ancient world feel vivid and approachable for younger readers. His books on Homer and Rome mix storytelling with a solid grounding in classical learning.

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Homer

-750–-650

Tradition remembers this ancient Greek poet as the voice behind the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epics that shaped storytelling for centuries. Even though little can be known for certain about the historical person, the poems linked to him still feel vivid, dramatic, and deeply human.

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