The Histories

An inquiry into the great deeds of Greeks and Persians, that they might not be forgotten.
The Odyssey

The man of twists and turns, ten years homeward from a war that lasted ten more.
The Iliad

The wrath of Achilles, the fall of Hector, the long siege of windy Troy.
Elements

The thirteen books that founded geometry — propositions, postulates, the axioms of all that follows.