Of the books of antiquity which adorn the Modem Library series, none is in greater favor than Homer's Iliad and its companion volume, The Odyssey (No. 167).  The immortal epic of the wrath of Achilles and the siege of Troy is as vivid to the contemporary reader as it must have been to Homer's first enraptured listeners seven centuries before the Christian era, and as it has remained through the ages in its various renderings. The Lang-Leaf-Myers translation was chosen upon the urgent advice of the leading authorities in England and America.