Excerpt from Ulysses Among the Phaeacians: From the Translation of Homer's Odyssey The Odysseyjs the Robinson Crusoe of antiquity, and, though it is less famous than the Iliad, it comes closer to modern life, and has more of the romance about it than the Iliad has. Every one who wishes to get a peep into the world of Greece should read these poems, and every one ought to know something of Greece and the Greeks; for the American of to - day, while he is first indebted to England for Speech and institutions, is, with England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.