The Odyssey

Homer's The Odyssey is an expansive epic of return, recognition, and moral endurance. It follows Odysseus after the Trojan War as he struggles for ten years to reach Ithaca, encountering divine hostility, seductive dangers, and civilizations that test the boundaries between home and exile. Through parallel narratives, the poem also depicts Penelope's resistance to the suitors and Telemachus's matu...