pThis volume presents a cleaned-up version of the Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, based on a combination of ancient sources and modern scholarship. Written in Latin, with extensive notes in English, the book provides a new perspective on the cultural and linguistic roots of these foundational epic poems. With a focus on technique, structure, and language, this book is an essential resource for classicists, linguists, and anyone interested in literary history and cultural evolution.ppThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.ppThis work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity individual or corporate has a copyright on the body of the work.ppScholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally ava