Adeventure on the high seas, legendary romance, tests of endurance, betrayal, herois--this epic has all these and more, imagined by the most famous bard of all time. But, as Aristotle pointed out, "his greatness was that he himself was nowhere to be found in his story. His characters were everywhere." Blind and pissibly illiterate, Homer has still, according to John Dryden, "in loftiness of thought surpass'd" any storyteller since 900 BCE.