Charles Lamb retells the wanderings of Ulysses after the fall of Troy, drawing on Chapman’s Homer: the Cyclops, Circe, the Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, the island of Calypso, the kindness of Nausicaa and the court of Alcinous, and the hero’s return in disguise to Ithaca and the suitors who have overrun his house.
A famous Romantic-era retelling of the Odyssey for children, by the co-author of Tales from Shakespeare. Download the free EPUB.