Books: Super Greek

FOREVER ULYSSES—C. P. Rodocanachi —Viking ($2.50).

Best-known Greek adventurers of all time have been Homer's Ulysses and the late Sir Basil Zaharoff, munitions tycoon and Europe's ''Mystery Man." Until last week, no one thought of drawing a parallel between the two. Forever Ulysses, a fictionized biography, makes its hero a modern Greek named Ulysses whose career, recalling Zaharoff's, also recalls Ulysses'.

For his model Author Rodocanachi disclaims any single prototype, says he drew on several adventurous Greeks of his acquaintance. His own career offered a good starting point. Egyptian-born, English-educated, Constantine Rodocanachi is...