Homeric poetry is the starting point of the European spirit; it is the oldest literary document (alongside the Iliad and the Odyssey), the progenitor of poetic function on both European and global levels; it is composed in a way that allows it to maintain eternal youth.

The beginning of this poetry is marked by the ILIAD and, with some temporal difference, the ODYSSEY. There are three thematic cores of the Odyssey. The first is the 'Telemachy,' that is, the action of Telemachus, the son of the central hero of this epic, the mythical king of Ithaca, Odysseus. The second is what is presented at the beginning of this epic, in its 'proem': the adventures of Odysseus on lands and seas during his ten-year wandering.

The third is the 'suitors' slaughter,' that is, the punishment of the suitors of his wife Penelope, after his twenty-year absence from Ithaca. The Odyssey (like the Iliad) is one of the few widely read books all over the world. This volume contains introductions to Homer, a broad summary of the epic, translation, commentary, analysis, and educational processing by rhapsodies.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]