The Iliad and the Odyssey : stories from Homer's epics
Adaptations
158 p. : b & w illustrations ; 23 cm.
9781931728508, 193172850X
1059156871
Homer : the poet for all ages
The Greek gods
What happened before the Iliad. The judgment of Paris
The beautiful Helen
Odysseus
The godlike Achilles
Stories from the Iliad. Prologue : the long siege
The quarrel
Hector and Andromache
Agamemnon's appeal to Achilles
The arming of Patroclus
How the death of Patroclus roused Achilles
The making of the arms
The vengeance of Achilles
Priam's appeal to Achilles
The death of Achilles
The Trojan horse
Stories from the Odyssey. Part 1, A son's adventures. The visitor to Telemachus
Telemachus speaks
The council meeting
Preparing to embark
In the hall of Menelaus
Part 2, A hero's return. The command to Calypso
Nausicaa
In the hall of Alcinous
Odysseus tells his tale
Odysseus tells of Aeolus and Circe
Odysseus tells of many perils
The return to Ithaca
Odysseus and the swineherd
Father and son
The beggar in the hall of Odysseus
The scar
The beggar and the bow
The vengeance of Odysseus
Husband and wife
Son and father
Acknowledgments
"The text in this volume is adapted from the following sources: Homer : the poet for all ages from Everyday classics eight reader/ ed. Franklin T. Baker and Ashley H. Thorndike (New York: Macmillan, 1918) -- What happened before the Iliad from The Merrill readers ; fifth reader / ed. Franklin B. Dyer and Mary J. Brady (New York : Charles E. Merrill Co., 1916); and, "The fall of Troy" in Thirty more famous stories retold / by James Baldwin (New York : American Book Co., 1905) -- Stories from the Iliad from The Iliad for boys and girls (New York : Macmillan, 1907) and Stories from Homer (New York : Thomas Y. Crowell and Co., 1901) / by Alfred J. Church -- Stories from the Odyssey from The adventures of Odysseus and the tale of Troy / by Padraic Colum (New York : Macmillan, 1918) -- Illustrations in this volume are by Willy Pogany, from The adventures of Odysseus and the tale of Troy (New York : Macmillan, 1918)"--Page 158
Editor, John Holdren ; art director, Steve Godwin ; designer, Jayoung Cho.