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Ulysses of Ithaca

Name: Ulysses of Ithaca
Author: Karl Friedrich Becker

by Karl Friedrich Becker, Homer

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Life Stories for Young People

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

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Produced by D A Alexander, Stephen Hutcheson, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Library of Congress)

Release date

2019-06-13

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character) -- Juvenile literature

About the authors

Karl Friedrich Becker

1777–1806

Best remembered for making history accessible to young readers, this early German educator and historian wrote a popular world history for children that continued to circulate after his death. Though his life was brief, his work proved influential enough to be revised and reused by later historians.

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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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