The Telegony: Rediscovering the Lost Epilogue to Homer's Odyssey

by D.M. Smith

In classical times, the story of the Trojan War was told in a series of eight epic poems known as the Epic Cycle, of which only the Iliad and Odyssey by Homer survive to the present day. The final poem in the sequence was Eugammon of Cyrene's Telegony-an obscure, largely forgotten post-script to the Odyssey, which told of the hero's adventures in the years after his return to Ithaca, and his eventual death at the hands...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B089279Z21
• ISBN13: 9798629652120
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.8"