Excerpt from Heroes and Kings: Stories From the Greek
The favour with which "Stories from Homer" has been received has often made me regret that it was thought expedient to confine the work within the limits of a single volume. I have therefore been glad to take the opportunity of supplying some of the omissions which I was then compelled to make. A friendly critic in the Spectator, whose praise and blame have always been most instructive, found fault with me for omitting that classical specimen of Homer's humour, "The Battle of the Gods." It is included in this volume. The "Embassy to Achilles," though some critics have declared it to be non-Homeric, is full of vigorous eloquence; the "Funeral Games of Patroclus" equally full of vigorous action.
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