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Excerpt from Pictorial Atlas to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: Thirty-Six Plates, Containing 225 Illustrations From Works of Ancient Art, With Descriptive Text, and an Epitome of the Contents of Each Book, for the Use of Schools and Students of Literature and Art The commentary, too, has been enlarged by many additional remarks on customs and art history. The titles of the illustrations no longer contain references to the German works from which they are derived, but notes on the character of the originals, the places where they were found, and in some cases the museums where they are preserved. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.