It offers the background which readers need to understand the poem\'s detail of story and characters, and it provides a step-by-step guide to the story\'s unravelling and to the literary features which have ensured its enduring popularity since its composition in 750 BC..
It offers the background which readers need to understand the poem\'s detail of story and characters, and it provides a step-by-step guide to the story\'s unravelling and to the literary features which have ensured its enduring popularity since its composition in 750 BC.