The Odyssey

Homer (8th century BC), trans. Samuel Butler

Translation en 126689 words Greece

Homer's second great epic: the ten-year voyage home of Odysseus from Troy. The Cyclops Polyphemus, Circe the enchantress, the Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, the underworld, the island of Calypso — while at home his wife Penelope outwits a hall full of suitors and his son Telemachus goes searching for news. The original story of the journey home, and of the cunning that survives it; the fountainhead of Western narrative. This edition uses Samuel Butler's classic prose translation.

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The Odyssey

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