Homer — The Odyssey
← all texts · Greek · c. 725 BCE
What this is
Odysseus's ten-year voyage home from Troy — the Cyclops, Circe, the Sirens, the descent to the dead, and the reclaiming of Ithaca. The archetypal journey-and-return.
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Companion reading path
What to read alongside it, and why.
Homer — The Iliad
Greek
The war this voyage follows from — read the Iliad first.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Mesopotamian
The other great mortality-and-underworld journey of the ancient world.
Virgil — The Aeneid
Classical wisdom
Virgil's deliberate Roman answer to Homer — Troy's survivors found Rome.