The Odyssey

About this book

Seymour Chwast an icon of the graphic design world has delighted audiences with his adaptations of The Divine Comedy and The Canterbury Tales. Now he turns to Homers Odyssey one of the best-known stories in history. The tale is one that begs for visual interpretation filled with mythic characters we all know well: the Cyclops the Lotus-Eaters the cannibal Laestrygonians the Sirens the monster Scylla (beside the whirlpool Charybdis) Poseidon Athena and Zeus.... Featuring a bold black white and blue interior design throughout imbued with his own sly humor The Odyssey brings us a dazzling new vision of one of the epic journeys.