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The original author, Homer, was a Greek poet who wrote epic poems. Not much is known about Homer, but there are different theories of what Homer seems to be. Some believe he was not even a real person, some think that it was a group of people that made up the poems, some think he was a woman, and according to the legend, he was a blind, poor poet who lived in Ionia. The author of this specific translated version, Albert Cook, has been a Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and Classics at Brown University since 1978. He was educated at Harvard and is an author, poet, and playwright. He is the author of The Classic Line: A Study of Epic Poetry, Myth and Language, and Soundings: On Shakespeare, Modern Poetry, Plato, and Other Subjects.
It’s been ten years since the end of the Trojan War, and the Greek hero Odysseus still has not returned to his kingdom and family in Ithaca. A large and unruly crowd of suitors has overrun Odysseus’s palace and stolen his land carry on to......

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