Title: Don't Mess With My Iliad
Product review: I bought this book for the activities, which were okay (but I thought the Pyramids! book in the series was better for that), for some future homeschooling programs. It was fine until I hit page 31 and the "Super-Short Version" of The Iliad. I stopped reading.What they presented was, in fact, a synopsis of the Trojan war stories. I failed to find anything in this version that *occurred* in The Iliad. The poem of that name is about the chain of events leading up to the death of the Trojan hero, Hector. Anyone who read this synopsis and then later tried to read the Homeric poem would wonder where the horse was and if they accidentally skipped the famous argument settled by Paris.Reading other reviews I see that the authors played fast and loose with facts in other areas.I am now very disappointed with this book. I don't recommend buying it. If you want to use it, cherry-pick the activities from a library copy, but don't believe everything you read in it.
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