[...] An important part of the epic, to which minimal and coincidental emphasis and attention has been given, is the famous and grandiose similes of Homer, an essential parameter of refined speech, which was first taught by him and has since been used indiscriminately by all the scholars of the world of all times, but also by all of us users of oral speech, regardless of the degree of education. Just as it is impossible to have speech without counter-argument, in the same way there cannot be narration without simile. [...]

As much as possible, a narrative flow of excerpts from the Iliad and the Odyssey was followed, so that the reader of this book can easily follow and understand the value of the similes, which occupy an important part of the epics. [...]

(from the book's preface)