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The children's Homer : the adventures of Odysseus and the tale of Troy  Cover Image Book Book

The children's Homer : the adventures of Odysseus and the tale of Troy / Padraic Colum ; illustrated by Willy Pogany.

Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972 (Author). Pog♭Łny, Willy, 1882-1955 (illustrator.). Homer. Iliad. (Added Author). Homer. Odyssey. (Added Author).

Summary:

A retelling of the events of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus based on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781534450370
  • ISBN: 1534450378
  • Physical Description: 247 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Edition: Aladdin hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Aladdin, 2019.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Reprint. Originally published: The adventures of Odysseus and the tale of Troy. New York: Macmillan, 1918.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part I: how Telemachus the son of Odysseus was moved to go on a voyage in search of his father and how he heard from Menelaus and Helen the tale of Troy -- Part II: How Odysseus left Calypso's island and came to the land of the Phaeacians; how he told he fared with the Cyclopes and went past terrible Scylla and Charybidis and came to the island of Thrinacia and where his men slaughtered the cattle of the sun: how he was given a ship by the Phaeacians and came to his own landl how he overthrew the wooers who wasted his substance and came to reign again as king of Ithaka.
Subject: Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character) > Juvenile literature.
Achilles (Mythological character) > Juvenile literature.
Trojan War > Juvenile literature.
Mythology, Greek.
Genre: Action and adventure fiction.

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