Excerpt from The Iliad of Homer: Done Into English Prose I. With a few exceptions, English transliterations of Greek and Latin proper names are phonetic, that is, pronounced as spelled. These exceptions are: ch is pronounced like k; y (which represents the Greek it, except in diphthongs) is pro nounced like i; x as an initial is pronounced like 3; e and 0 may be long or short, - that is, conventionally long or short, not strictly so phonetically; thus hera is pronounced heb-rah, and eros, air-oss, and oceanus, oh-se-an-us, and odys sey, odd-iss-sv. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.