In “The Lost Books of The Odyssey” Zachary Mason the author, retells the ancient Greek epic The Odyssey. The book is composed of many small stories, each exciting and very different from each other. The first few chapters are different imagined homecoming scenarios that Odysseus is playing out in his head. Mason then tells of Odysseus’s adventures. Mason’s Odysseus is an intriguing character. He is clever, witty, and confident. Nonetheless Odysseus is a mortal man, we are shown how he is able to resist the god Athena, but still fall to the powers of the sirens.
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John Maler Collier (1850–1934), "Clytemnestra," 1882
Cassandra by Evelyn De Morgan (1898, London); Cassandra in front of the burning city of Troy |