The Odyssey of Homer in English

Raja Babu

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-four books.
Book number and line number are the standard terms of reference.

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Updated Aug 15, 2025

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Aug 12, 2025 · 18 min
BOOK 4
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, for many townsmen, a wedding feast for his son and his stately daughter. The girl 5 he was sending to the son of Achilleus, breaker of battalions, for in Troy land first he had nodded his head to it and promised to give her, and now the gods were bringing to pass their marriage; so he was sending her on her way, with horses and chariots,
Aug 12, 2025 · 15 min
BOOK 3
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 grain-giving farmland. They came to Pylos, Neleus' strong-founded citadel, 5 where the people on the shore of the sea were making sacrifice of bulls who were all black to the dark-haired Earthshaker.
Aug 12, 2025 · 13 min
BOOK 2
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 clothes, and slung a sharp sword over his shoulder. Underneath his shining feet he bound the fair sandals 5 and went on his way from the chamber, like a god in presence.
Aug 12, 2025 · 11 min
BOOK 1
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 saw, whose minds he learned of, many the pains he suffered in his spirit on the wide sea
Aug 12, 2025 · 21 min
Introduction
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-four books. Book number and line number are the standard terms of reference.

The Odyssey of Homer in English

BOOK 4

BOOK 3

BOOK 2

BOOK 1

Introduction