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The Odyssey (rendered into English prose)

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The oldest sea story in the West: a ten-year journey home past a one-eyed giant, a sorceress and a land of the dead. Butler's plain prose makes it read like a novel.

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TranslatorSamuel Butler
LanguageEnglish
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Why we can share it: Project Gutenberg record: 'Copyright Status: Public domain in the USA.' Translator Samuel Butler (1835-1902) died 1902; the text states the translation first appeared in 1900.

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BeingTalosA giant of bronze circled Crete three times a day hurling rocks at ships. His whole body was armored except one blood-red vein running neck to ankle, sealed by a single nail. Ancient tales say Medea brought him down. Was Talos a monster, or one of the first imagined robots? Historians disagree.

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