Homer and the Odyssey

Honestly I never read a better book than Homer's Odyssey. I read it when I was five or six years old. I was a precocious kid, but still that was an advanced book even for me. Luckily I read it in a children's edition, complete with illustrations and a simplified vocabulary. The one thing I'll never forget is the story of Telemachus and Penelope, the son and wife of Ulysses. When the great warrior finally arrived home after the Trojan War after a ten-year journey, he found a house full of suitors all trying to flirt with his wife. Ulysses bolted the door to the great hall where they were eating and drinking, and taking his bow he shot arrows into all of them, killing them one by one until none was left alive. What a guy! Of course hw was helped by his son, Telemachus, during this battle.