The Odyssey, Book 1, Lines 1-6 "The Odyssey," written by the poet Homer around 800 B.C.E., is one of the greatest human works of all time. It's also a dense read, which is why we highly recommend ...

Homer’s The Odyssey isn’t just an ancient story ... What follows is often called the “Telemachy”—the first four books of The Odyssey—in which the son embarks on his own journey ...

The Odyssey follows its title character Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, and his long, eventful journey home after the end of ...

THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER—Translated by George Herbert Palmer;illustrated by N. C. Wyeth—Houghton Mifflin ($5.00). As fewer and fewer people read Greek, translations of the Greek classics become ...

The greatest warrior the Greek world has ever known will spend 18 books — three-quarters of this war poem — fighting no one. Emily Wilson’s sparkling translation of Homer’s “Odyssey ...

In The Odyssey, an almost 3,000-year-old epic attributed to a poet known as Homer, the soldier Odysseus ... recreating Odysseus’ journey. The book is part literary crash course on The Odyssey ...

Lady Circe spake unto me, saying: ... "On the other part are two rocks, whereof the one reaches with sharp peak to the wide heaven, and a dark cloud encompasses it; this never streams away, and ...

Director Christopher Nolan's next work will be a modern film adaptation of Homer's "The Odyssey," bringing the Greek classic to IMAX screens in 2026. "Christopher Nolan’s next film ‘The ...