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|title=The Odyssey (The Classics)

|sort=Odyssey (Classics) , The

|publisher=Frances Lincoln Children's Books

|date=August 2014

|summary=A much more satisfactory look at ancient Greece than the relentless bloodthirstiness of [[The Iliad (The Classics) by Rosemary Sutcliff and Alan Lee (illustrator)|The Iliad]]. This book shows why these stories can have the legs to last.

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It took ten years but the drama contained within [[The Iliad (The Classics) by Rosemary Sutcliff and Alan Lee (illustrator)|The Iliad]] finally concluded, and the few people to survive were able to go back home. Many packed up their black ships and sailed from whence they arrived, although one was not to find the journey so direct. Odysseus, and his command of twelve ships, were to be battered and torn, tried and tested in all manner of ways, before they had any hope of finishing their circuitous loops of the classical world. But for all the threat they endured, something equally base and nasty was happening at the home they so actively sought…