The Authoress of the Odyssey

BOOK I.

_The council of the gods--Telemachus and the suitors in the house of Ulysses_.

Tell me, oh Muse, of that ingenious hero who met with many adventures while trying to bring his men home after the Sack of Troy. He failed in this, for the men perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun, and he himself, though he was longing to get back to his wif...