The Odyssey: Introduction by Seamus Heany (Everyman's Library Classics Series)One of the supreme masterpieces of world literature, the Homeric saga of the shipwrecks, wanderings, and homecoming of the master tactician Odysseus encompasses a virtual inventory of the themes and attitudes that have shaped Western culture. The tale of Odysseuss encounters with such obstacles as Calypso, Circe, Scylla and Charybdis, the Sirens, and the lotus eaters, and his dramatic return to Ithaca and his patient wife, Penelope, forms a prototype