Prof Samuel Henry Butcher

No other poem in all the literature of the world excels or equals the Odyssey in variety of interest.  Its hero is the type of the gallant adventurer, and his journeyings take him into the Fairylands that delight children of a larger growth.  Odysseus was the King of Ithaca, and Ithaca was a tiny island west of Greece.  He was the most distant of the feudal princes that fought with Agamemnon for the pupose of winning back from Paris of Troy, Helen, the runaway wife of Agamemnon's brother Menelaus.  After the ten years' war, which