The most beautiful stories of Classical Antiquity: Odysseus and Aeneas (Vol. 3)

A work that offers the reader, in three volumes, a comprehensive collection of Greek and Roman myths in fictional form. This third and final volume of *The Most Beautiful Stories of Classical Antiquity* narrates the return of the warriors Odysseus and Aeneas after the fall of Troy and the Greek victory. The story of Aeneas is divided into two parts. The first deals with the "odyssey" experienced by the hero who, after seven years of traveling, reaches the Tiberius River where he marries Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus. The second part is an "iliad," that is, a war narrative, in which Aeneas kills Turnus, the rejected suitor and leader of the Rutiles. Masterfully transforming the epic poems *Odyssey* by Homer and *Aeneid* by Virgil into prose, Gustav Schwab concluded his collection of stories from classical antiquity by retelling two of the most beautiful and celebrated works of universal literature.