Legends and myths of ancient Greece. Odyssey

Nikolai Albertovich Kun (1877-1940) - Russian historian, writer. On the line of his mother, he came from an old noble family, in the family of his father (surname Kuhn-German) were German and Anglo-Shottland roots. Nikolai Albertovich is a brilliant graduate of the historical and philological faculty of Moscow University, where, among other things, Greek and Roman literature and antiquity were studied, which forever became the center of its interests.
And although Kun wrote many books, including "Tales of African peoples", "Tales of Gypsies", "Tales of the peoples of the Islands of the Great Ocean", the translation of "letters of dark people" (German satire for scholasticism), it is most known as it is known as it The author of the book "Legends and myths of ancient Greece".
Nikolai Albertovich taught a lot: he conducted classes on the history of culture and religions in the Tver, Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow educational institutions. He worked abroad: at the University of Berlin and in Rome, where in 1911-1912 he led excursions of Russian teachers and gave lectures as an expert on ancient art, in museums, forum and in the palatine (Roman hill, one of the most ancients of the eternal city).
Interest in antiquity inspired Kun to create a book that was still popular: it was first released in 1922 and has since been reprinted many times. It is interesting that its first name was "what the ancient Greeks and the Romans told about their gods and heroes."
This publication publishes part of the book: a myth that describes a long and difficult return to the homeland of Tsar Itaki - Odyssey, his adventures on the island of Cyclops -Ludaists, among the sirens and monsters of Skill and Haribdya, in the countries of Lotophagus and Feaks, on the island of the sorceress , converting people in pigs, his descent into the underworld, to the kingdom of Aida, etc., as well as the vicissitudes of life awaiting him on the island of his wife