Iliad and The Odyssey + Homer and His Age

This carefully crafted ebook: &quote;The Iliad and The Odyssey + Homer and His Age&quote; contains 2 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.The Iliad and the Odyssey are two epic poems written by Homer around the 9th century BC. They are two of the oldest recorded written works in history. The Iliad deals with a ten-year war between the Greeks and Trojans, called the Siege of Troy. It centers around Achilles, the great Greek hero who was dipped in the river Styx when he was young and whose only weak spot was his heel. He was killed when Apollo helped one of his enemies shoot an arrow into his heel.The Odyssey is about Odysseuss voyage from the war back home to Ithaca, which took another 10 years.Homer (around the 9th century BC) is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest of ancient Greek epic poets. Homer's works, which are about fifty percent speeches, provided models in persuasive