The first Aldine edition of both poems (1504), of which the U-M Library holds this volume of the Odyssey, set the standard for what was included in “the complete Homer”: Iliad, Odyssey, Batrachomyomachia, Hymns, and Lives attributed to Herodotus, Dione, and Plutarch. These two volumes were printed in a handy pocket format (octavo) with a typeface inspired by
