Book description
'Tell me, Muse, of the man of many turns, who was driven
far and wide after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy'
Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca. His household is in disarray: a horde…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Odyssey as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I was in Greece, and read the Odyssey by and on the wine dark sea, imagining that it was all real.
This is the Anthony Verity translation for Oxford University Press. I have read Fagles’s translation, too, which everyone raves about, but the Oxford classic editions have great notes, which help you appreciate the text. And they are smaller to pack.
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