T his book introduces young readers to the Iliad and the Odyssey, some of the oldest stories we have. Both works were originally very long poems in the Greek language. Here they are presented in shortened versions translated into English and told as stories. They were first written down more than 2,500 years ago, but the stories were preserved and shared many centuries before that. They tell of events that happened more than 3,000 years ago, in and around the countries we now know as Greece and
