Akron Public Library

In the English verse translation by Alexander Pope, illustrated with th classical designs of John Flaxman. Collector's edition bound in genuine leather.

Due to a lack of biographical evidence regarding the identity of Homer it has been suggested that the two great works attributed to him, the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" may in fact be the work of multiple authors passed down through a long oral tradition. While scholarship on the subject will likely never definitely prove one way or the other, it is now generally accepted that these two great epic poems are the work of a single Greek author, Homer,...

A retelling of the legend of Achilles follows Patroclus and Achilles, the golden son of King Peleus, as they lay siege to Troy after Helen of Sparta is kidnapped--a cause that tests their friendship and forces them to make the ultimate sacrifice.

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

Homer's account of the tenth year of the Trojan War, centering around Achilles' quarrel with Agamemnon and his revenge against Hector.

This book retells the events of the war between Greece and the city of Troy, focusing on Achilles' quarrel with Agamemnon.

In order to distract Achilles and hopefully bring an end to the Trojan War, the goddesses Hera, Athena, and Venus seize the souls of two twenty-first-century beauties who have died in a car crash and shift them into the bodies of a Trojan princess and her handmaiden.