{"product_id":"homer-9","title":"HOMER","description":"\u003cp\u003eA charming Latin-Greek pocket edition of Homer s complete works, printed in Geneva. The  Odyssey  was sometime in the library of the French humanist and poet Jacques Poille (1565-1623), and bears his motto and a few ms marginalia. Poille s autograph is also present in other C16 Greek editions (e.g., at NYPL). This is the second impression with Bud é s Latin text. Later in the library of the great French bibliographer Jacques-Charles Brunet (1780-1867), and n.172    charmante exemplaire    in his London sale catalogue (1868).  \u003cbr\u003e\n Homer has remained an obscure figure in the history of Western poetry. Whilst his  Iliad  and  Odyssey  are dated to the C9-8BC, it is uncertain whether there ever was a blind bard of such genius or whether his persona came to be used to identify the output of a long- standing oral epic tradition, or indeed both. One of the most influential poems of Western civilisation, the  Iliad  narrates the last years of the Greeks  siege of Troy, focusing on the causes and consequences of Achilles s  wrath  - the opening word of the poem - after King Agamemnon seizes his concubine. The  Odyssey  famously recounts the adventurous journey of Ulysses, King of Ithaca, to his native island after the end of the Trojan War, facing sirens, cyclops and many other perils.  Batrachomyomachia  narrates a battle between Mice and Frogs, assisted by Zeus and other deities. The 33  Hymns  - attributed to, but not composed by, Homer   are each devoted to a different god or goddess, and written in a Greek language as archaic as Homer s. At the end of this ed. are poetic works, edited by Neander, by Colluthus Thebaeus and Tryphiodorus Aegyptius, thematically connected with the Homeric material but rarely printed in the C16 and C17s.  \u003cbr\u003e\n From the library of the author George Brunet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HOMER","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868710904143,"sku":"L4444","price":7950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/homer-1.jpg?v=1781793404","url":"https:\/\/sokol-books-ltd.myshopify.com\/products\/homer-9","provider":"Sokol Books Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}