The Odyssey of HomerHomer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus' journey home from the Trojan War has inspired writers from Virgil to James Joyce. Odysseus survives storm and shipwreck, the cave of the Cyclops and the isle of Circe, the lure of the Sirens' song and a trip to the Underworld, only to find his most difficult challenge at home, where treacherous suitors seek to steal his kingdom and his loyal wife, Penelope. Favorite of the gods, Odysseus embodies the energy, intellect, and resourcefulness that were of highest value to the ancients and that remain ideals in out time. In this new verse translation, Allen Mandelbaum--celebrated poet and translator of Virgil's Aeneid and Dante's Divine Comedy --realizes the power and beauty of the original Greek verse and demonstrates why the epic tale of The Odyssey has captured the human imagination for nearly three thousand years. |
Contents
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Book IV | 61 |
Book V | 93 |
Book VI | 113 |
Book VII | 129 |
Book VIII | 143 |
Book IX | 167 |
Book X | 175 |
Book XVI | 315 |
Book XVII | 335 |
Book XVIII | 359 |
Book XIX | 377 |
Book XX | 401 |
Book XXI | 417 |
Book XXII | 435 |
Book XXIII | 455 |
Book XI | 211 |
Book XII | 235 |
Book XIII | 253 |
Book XIV | 271 |
Book XV | 293 |
Book XXIV | 471 |
Afterword | 493 |
Glossary | 501 |
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Common terms and phrases
Achæans Achilles Aegisthus Agamemnon Alcínoüs Amphinomus Antínoüs Arétë Argives Ártemis asked Athena Átreus beside black ship bright Odysseus bronze Círcë cloak clothes Clytemnestra comrades Crete crew Cronos Cyclops dark daughter dead dear death deathless divine Odysseus Dulichium Eumæus Eupeithes Eurycleia Eurýmachus fate father feast friends gave gifts godlike gods gray-eyed goddess grief guest Hades halls handmaids hands handsome hear heard heart Hélios Hephaestus Hermes husband island isle Ithaca killed king Laértës land lord lovely Meanwhile Melanthius Menelaus mind mortal mother Nausicaa Néleus Nestor oars offered once Peloponnese Phaeácians Poseidon Pylos quick reached replied rich sailed shafts shore soon speak spoke stay stood stranger struck sturdy suitors surely swift ship swineherd tears Telémachus tell took Trojan Trojan War Troy wait wanderer wife wiles wind wine winged words wise Penelope women young Zeus ㅁㅁㅁ