The collection of studies which we are going to follow ….doc

TRANSLATOR’S NOTE I am posting this very rough draft because the task of getting it edited and into print format has proven more considerable than I anticipated. The print format of the first two chapters can be accessed at . I learned of this book from a study which cited it as a source for James Joyce in writing Ulysses. I was amazed to discover that it has apparently never been reprinted. In it I found answers to the confusion and questions which have been with me ever since first reading Homer’s works. It has been immensely satisfying to translate it. I hope that I have made things clear. PREFACE ______ I give here the first volume of my work The Phoenicians and the Odyssey. Of the twelve books which should form the complete work, this volume contains the first five; they will take the reader up to the moment when Ulysses tells his story before a Pheacian audience: FIRST BOOK. - Topology and Toponyny. SECOND BOOK - The Telemachea. THIRD BOOK - Calypso. FOURTH BOOK - The Phoenician navigations. FIFTH BOOK - Nausica?. The second volume will comprise the entire account of Ulysses to Alkino?s, then his departure from Pheacia and his return to Eumaus; I would particularly insist on the marvelous adventures of the Nostos: SIXTH BOOK - The Song of the Corsairs. SEVENTH BOOK - Lotus-eaters and Cyclops. EIGHTH BOOK - Aeolos and the Lestrygons. NINTH BOOK - Circe and the Land of the Dead. TENTH BOOK - The Sirens, Charybdis a