Homer: Odyssey Book XI - Richard Hunter Fiction From lush jungles to deep

From lush jungles to deep oceans to sweltering deserts

Each piece in this life-affirming book is an invitation to slow down

especially in the fishing fleets

and rock'n'roll event

put my heart in my throat the next

Homer: Odyssey Book XI - Richard Hunter Fiction From lush jungles to deepBook XI of the Odyssey, Odysseus' extraordinary account of how he met the ghosts of the past in the Underworld, occupies a central place in Homer's epic and was to become a foundational work of Western literature. Odysseus learns of his future from the blind seer Teiresias and of events on Ithaca from the ghost of his mother, Anticleia, and confronts the Iliadic past in the ghosts of Agamemnon, Achilles and Ajax. Book XI is also a repository of epic