Homer‚ The Odyssey BOOK I Tell me‚ O muse‚ of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit‚ and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might he could not save his men‚ for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented
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The Odyssey Homer (Translated by Samuel Butler) This eBook was designed and published by Planet PDF. For more free eBooks visit our Web site at http://www.planetpdf.com/. To hear about our latest releases subscribe to the Planet PDF Newsletter. The Odyssey Preface to First Edition This translation is intended to supplement a work entitled ‘The Authoress of the Odyssey’‚ which I published in 1897. I could not give the whole ‘Odyssey’ in that book without making it unwieldy‚ I therefore
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