Books written by Homer
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The Odyssey
Chronicles the exploits and adventures of the warrior Odysseus as he struggles to return home to Ithaca and his beloved wife, Penelope, after the fall of Troy.
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Homer: Iliad XIII-XXIV
This text provides a line-by-line commentary on Books XIII-XXIV of Homer's epic poem, the Iliad.
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The Odyssey: A Stage Version
Episodes of the story of Odysseus' protracted wanderings from fallen Troy to his island home of Ithaca are pungently interspersed with a commentary by the blind singer Billy Blue.
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The Odyssey
Presents Homer's age-old tale of the wanderings of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to Ithaca after the Trojan War as he overcomes both divine and natural forces. Reissue.
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The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation
Farrar, Straus and Giroux is delighted to publish a new edition of this classic work. Fitzgerald's supple verse is ideally suited to the story of Odysseus' long journey back to his wife and home after the Trojan War.
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The Odyssey: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation)
A new translation of Homer's epic adventure endeavors to instill the poetic nature of its original language while retaining accuracy, readability, and character vibrancy, creating the most captivating rendition of one of the defining ...
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Collins Classics - The Odyssey
Homer's epic tells of the adventures of Odysseus, the mythological King of Ithaca and leader of the Trojan war, recounting the hero's wanderings and his eventual regaining of his kingdom.
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The Odyssey of Homer. in Two Volumes - Vol. II
Our readers see the books the same way that their first readers did decades or a hundred or more years ago. Books from that period are often spoiled by imperfections that did not exist in the original.
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Homer: The Odyssey
The Odyssey is one of the earliest works of European literature, second only to the Iliad. These two great epic poems, the astonishing first fruits of Greek civilization, have together...
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The Odyssey: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the general reader, to captivate a new generation of Homer's students. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition features French flaps and deckle-edged paper.
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The Odyssey
A modern prose version of the classical epic relates the wanderings and homecoming of a Greek warrior and hero
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The Odyssey
The Odyssey is the Ancient Greek tale of Odysseus and his eventful voyage home after the Trojan War.
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The Odyssey of Homer
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 ...
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The Odyssey
The second work of Western Literature, Homer's Odyssey is, as Peter Jones says in his illuminating Introduction, 'rich in character, adventure and incident, reconciling reality with fantasy, the heroic with...
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The Odyssey Abridged
Every line in the abridged text comes from Homer's poem, and a few short summary comments are included to keep the narrative thrust of the action coherent.
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The Odyssey
Plot synopsis of this classic is made meaningful with analysis and quotes by noted literary critics, summaries of the work's main themes and characters, a sketch of the author's life and times, a bibliography, suggested test questions, and ...
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The Odyssey: Translation and Analysis
From Stephen Mitchell, the renowned translator whose "Iliad "was named one of "The New Yorker"'s Favorite Books of 2011, comes a vivid new translation of the "Odyssey," complete with textual...
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The Odyssey--Butler Translation, Large-Print Edition
Ulysses, on his way home from the Trojan War, encounters resistance from the Sirens, Circe the sorceress, the Cyclops, and other dangers, only to find his wife, Penelope, being pursued by various suitors.
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The Iliad
The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer.
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The Odyssey
'The Odyssey is a poem of extraordinary pleasures: it is a salt-caked, storm-tossed, wine-dark treasury of tales, of many twists and turns, like life itself' Guardian The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan ...