I am reading The Odyssey and Iliad right now with two students, both of whom HATE the usual fiction reading they do in Middle School. They are loving that book. We got a R. Sutcliff edition with beautiful illustrations — the Cyclops’ eye with a stake in it, the suitor Laertes shot in the neck, standing there with an arrow through his neck. Odysseus’s visit to the Land of the Dead is illustrated so beautifully.
I don’t remember an eclipse in it. But then I haven’t agreed much with the National Geographic since they posted that photo of two lesbians kissing in Paris.
Great job teacher! I had a great professor (one of many) in college in the early 70’s who taught Greek Mythology and really took you back in time with Homer’s classic.