^#smrgSAHAF The Iliad -

The Iliad and the Odyssey are the oldest complete books in the Western world. No one knows for certain who wrote them, or where, or when. Suddenly they gush out of the earth, like living water from a subterranean source, far back beyond the beginning of our recorded history, and like strong rivers they have continued to flow with incomparable force and vitality through nearly three thousand years and over half a planet.
(Introduction)