id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 13983 Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline) The Book of the Epic: The World's Great Epics Told in Story .txt text/plain 166477 7416 73 forces, and the main events of the first nine years of the Trojan War. The Iliad (of which a synopsis is given) follows this epic, taking up aid the Trojans, the poet relates her death at the hand of Achilles, The course of this day's fighting is anxiously watched by old King _Book I._ Homer's second great epic covers a period of forty-two days. _Book VII._ Having left Ulysses behind her, Nausicaa returns home, time the men pleaded to return home, Ulysses told his hostess he must having borne sons to gods or to famous heroes. son to escape while there was yet time, Aeneas, on reaching home, moved by love, forsook her place in heaven to bid him serve as Dante's Promising to do so in return for the man's story, Dante learns folk epic relates how Hagan, son of a king, was carried off at seven ./cache/13983.txt ./txt/13983.txt