Excerpt from The Homeric Stories, Iliad and Odyssey: Done Into English Prose Such notes of the translators as would be useful to young readers have been preserved, and I have added, in brackets, a few others that seemed to be required for the special public to which this volume is adapted. Other explanation the Iliad scarcely needs. The plot and its characters reveal themselves fully as the tale progresses, and allusions that are not quite clear at first soon become intelligible. 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.