Homer’s Odyssey, composed around the eighth century BC, is one of the oldest and most enduring works of Western literature. It tells the story of Odysseus’s ten-year journey home to Ithaca following the fall of Troy — a voyage beset by gods, monsters, temptresses, and storms — and of his wife Penelope’s patient faithfulness and his son Telemachus’s coming of age in his absence.
This prose translation makes Homer’s epic accessible to every reader. The Odyssey’s themes of homecoming, identity, cunning, and loyalty speak across millennia. Download this free EPUB from Better Gutenberg and set sail on the ancient world’s greatest adventure.