Leather bound

Printed in 2011 in China

"Iliad & Odyssey Homer Canterbury Classics 2011 Gold Leatherette Hardcover

*The Iliad & The Odyssey* by Homer — Canterbury Classics edition (Baker & Taylor Publishing Group, ©2011

- Deluxe gold/amber leatherette hardcover with embossed Greek warrior and horse design on cover and spine

- Introduction by Stephanie Lynn Budin, PhD

- Includes prefaces, major character guides, and illustrated frontispiece (Homer bust, Albani Collection)

- Decorative orange-and-cream illustrated endpapers depicting classical battle scenes

- 700+ pages, both epic poems in one volume

- ISBN-13: 978-1-60710-212-0

- Condition: no writing or damage" & not much any shelf wear

A handsome hardcover edition, great for display or gift-giving — classic Homeric literature in one beautifully bound volume.

The Iliad and Odyssey tell the story of the Trojan War and its aftermath, two of the most famous epics in Western literature.

**The Iliad** covers a few weeks near the end of the ten-year Trojan War. The Greeks (Achaeans) are besieging Troy after the Trojan prince Paris ran off with Helen, wife of the Spartan king Menelaus. The poem centers on the wrath of Achilles, the greatest Greek warrior, after he's insulted by the commander Agamemnon. Achilles withdraws from battle, the Greeks suffer heavy losses, and things come to a head when Achilles' close companion Patroclus is killed by the Trojan hero Hector. Achilles returns to battle for revenge, kills Hector, and the poem ends with Hector's funeral (it doesn't cover the war's actual end or the famous wooden horse — that comes from other sources).

**The Odyssey** picks up after the war. Odysseus, king of Ithaca, spends ten more years trying to get home, facing monsters (the Cyclops Polyphemus, Scylla and Charybdis), enchantresses (Circe, Calypso), storms, and the wrath of the sea god Poseidon. Meanwhile back home, his wife Penelope fends off suitors who assume Odysseus is dead, and his son Telemachus searches for news of him. The story ends with Odysseus finally returning, disguised as a beggar, and reclaiming his household by defeating the suitors.

Both are attributed to Homer and are foundational texts of ancient Greek culture — exploring themes of honor, glory, fate, homecoming, and mortality.