Odyseia

This is the first edition of Kazantzakis’ (1883-1957) Odyseia, an epic poem loosely based on Homer's Odyssey. It recounts the continuing adventures of Odysseus after his return to Ithaca following his decade long quest to reach his home, as told in the Odyssey. Considered by Kazantzakis to be his most important work, this immense poem consists of twenty-four books as in the original Odyssey and contains 33,333 lines. Our copy comes with a glossary of unusual words. This and the following book illustrate UC's significant holdings of items in Modern Greek stemming from the 1950s when UC assumed the responsibility for the preservation of all scholarly publications from Greece as part of the “Farmington Plan” of academic research libraries with the mandate to salvage books in libraries and publishing houses in Europe during World War II.