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The Iliad

Two Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations

The Ultimate Iliad & Odyssey

A New Translation by Daniel Mendelsohn

The Odyssey

The Wrath of Achilles

Circe and the Cyclops

Translated by Robert Fitzgerald

A BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisation

The Homeric Hymns

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Homer is a much-debated figure traditionally considered to have composed the two great oral poems <I>The Odyssey</I> and <I>The Iliad</I> in eighth or seventh-century-BC Greece

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