The Odyssey of Homer in English
Episodes
BOOK 24
15 Aug 2025
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BOOK XXIV Hermes of Kyllene summoned the souls of the suitors to come forth, and in his hands he was holding the beautiful golden staff, with which he...
BOOK 23
15 Aug 2025
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BOOK XXIII The old woman, laughing loudly, went to the upper chamber to tell her mistress that her beloved husband was inside the house. Her knees mov...
BOOK 22
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BOOK XXII Now resourceful Odysseus stripped his rags from him, and sprang up atop the great threshold, holding his bow and the quiver filled with arro...
BOOK 21
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BOOK XXI But now the goddess, gray-eyed Athene, put it in the mind of the daughter of Ikarios, circumspect Penelope, to set the bow before the suitors...
BOOK 20
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BOOK XX Then the noble Odysseus bedded down in the forecourt, and spread beneath him the raw hide of an ox, and uppermost many fleeces of sheep the Ac...
BOOK 19
15 Aug 2025
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BOOK XIX Now great Odysseus still remained in the hall, pondering how, with the help of Athene, he would murder the suitors. Presently he spoke in win...
BOOK 18
15 Aug 2025
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BOOK XVIII And now there arrived a public beggar, who used to go begging through the town of Ithaka, known to fame for his ravenous belly and appetite...
BOOK 17
15 Aug 2025
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BOOK XVII But when the young Dawn showed again with her rosy fingers, Telemachos, beloved son of godlike Odysseus, then bound underneath his feet the ...
BOOK 16
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BOOK XVI These two in the shelter, Odysseus and the noble swineherd, stirred the fire at dawn, and arranged their breakfast, and sent the herdsmen out...
BOOK 15
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BOOK XV At this time, Pallas Athene made her way into wide-spaced Lakedaimon, to remind the shining son of great-hearted Odysseus of his journey home,...
BOOK 14
13 Aug 2025
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BOOK XIV But Odysseus himself left the harbor and ascended a rugged path, through wooded country along the heights, where Athene had indicated the nob...
BOOK 13
13 Aug 2025
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BOOK XIII So he spoke, and all of them stayed stricken to silence, held in thrall by the story all through the shadowy chambers.
BOOK 12
13 Aug 2025
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BOOK XII ‘Now when our ship had left the stream of the Ocean river, and come back to the wide crossing of the sea's waves, and to the island of Aiai...
BOOK 11
13 Aug 2025
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BOOK XI ‘Now when we had gone down again to the sea and our vessel, first of all we dragged the ship down into the bright water, and in the black hu...
BOOK 10
13 Aug 2025
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BOOK X ‘We came next to the Aiolian island, whereAiolos lived,Hippotas' son, beloved by the immortal gods, on a floating island, the whole enclosed ...
BOOK 9
13 Aug 2025
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BOOK IX Then resourceful Odysseus spoke in turn and answered him: ‘O great Alkinoös, pre-eminent among all people, surely indeed it is a good thing...
BOOK 8
12 Aug 2025
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BOOK VIII Then when the young Dawn showed again with her rosy fingers, Alkinoös, the hallowed prince, rose up from his sleeping, and the descendant o...
BOOK 7
12 Aug 2025
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BOOK VII So long-suffering great Odysseus prayed, in that place, but the strength of the mules carried the young girl on, to the city, and when she ha...
BOOK 6
12 Aug 2025
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BOOK VI So long-suffering great Odysseus slept in that place in an exhaustion of sleep and weariness, and now Athene went her way to the district and ...
BOOK 5
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BOOK V Now Dawn rose from her bed, where she lay by haughty Tithonos, carrying light to the immortal gods and to mortals, and the gods came and took t...
BOOK 4
12 Aug 2025
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BOOK IV They came into the cavernous hollow of Lakedaimon and made their way to the house of glorious Menelaos. They found him in his own house giving...
BOOK 3
12 Aug 2025
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BOOK III Helios, leaving behind the lovely standing waters, rose up into the brazen sky to shine upon the immortals and also on mortal men across the ...
BOOK 2
12 Aug 2025
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BOOK II Now when the young Dawn showed again with her rosy fingers, the dear son of Odysseus stirred from where he was sleeping, and put on his clothe...
BOOK 1
12 Aug 2025
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BOOK I Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways, who was driven far journeys, after he had sacked Troy's sacred citadel. Many were they whose cities he ...
Introduction
12 Aug 2025
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The Odyssey as we have it is an epic of over twelve thousand lines. It has been divided, like the Iliad and probably at the same time, into twenty-fou...