Excerpt from Odyssey: Books XIII XXIV The scenes in these later books, though not less inter esting, are less familiar; and the text has seemed to require somewhat more of explanation. I have tried to leave no difficulties unnoticed; and I have thought it better to make the book, as far as possible, complete in itself, than to give references to notes in the former volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.