Wild Women of the Odyssey 1931 Julien Capers Hyer SIGNED ~ satirical poetry on Odysseus' relations with females

Title: Wild Women of the Odyssey

Author: Julien Hyer [Julien Capers Hyer]
Illustrator: Drawings by H. E. Lake

Description: Revised Version. Signed and numbered in a limited edition of 200, this being copy 30/200. Boards in burgundy cloth with gilt lettering on front cover. Lightly worn at extremities. Light pencil notations on front free endpaper and rear pastedown, else clean. [32] pages.

In this short book of wry verse, Eumaeus gives the author the low-down on Odysseus and his encounters with Pallas Athene, Calypso, Nausicaa, Circe, the Sirens, and Scylla and Charybdis.

''Why didn't Odysseus a wife for thee provide, / that she might live forever by your side?'' / ''Nay, sir, a wife he never for me found / For no one had a chance with him around.''

Julien Capers Hyer (1894-1974), a native of South Carolina and graduate of Georgetown University. After serving in the First World War he was elected to the Texas state senate and for fifteen years was a Dallas County judge. He also served as a judge advocate under General Patton in WWII and participated in the Nuremberg trials.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None

Publisher: The Joli Press
Place: Kansas City, Mo.
Year: 1931

Keywords: satire, Homer,