Excerpt from The Hundred Greatest Men: Portraits of the One Hundred Greatest Men of History; Reproduced From Fine and Rare Steel Engravings Every nation has its heroic age, and every heroic age has its bard, who sings its bold exploits. Such was Homer for the heroic age of Greece. 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.