Since the eighth century BC history's most famous traveller, Odysseus, has crossed the wine-dark seas to many lands and has survived every change of literary fashion. The name of the wanderer who called himself "Nobody" has been pronounced in the accents of all nations.
Howard W. Clarke combined sound scholarship and searching criticism to review and explain the major episodes in the story of the Odyssey, to elucidate the special techniques of Homeric poetry and to whose timeless masterpiece clarke characterizes as "epic in its comprehension of all conditions of men, good and bad, young and old, dead and alive, and all qualities of life, subhuman, human and superhuman, perilous and prosperous, familiar and fabulous."

Previous owner's name written on the end page. Foxing and shelf wear.