The Odyssey (Summarized Edition)

The Odyssey traces Odysseus's arduous nostos from Troy to Ithaca, interweaving the Telemachy with episodes of wonder and peril—Cyclops, Circe, the Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, Calypso, the Phaeacians. Composed in dactylic hexameter and launched in medias res, it marries ring composition to expansive Homeric similes and formulaic epithets. Exploring xenia, marriage, and justice, the poem contrasts...