The Odyssey
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The Odyssey

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eBook - ePub

The Odyssey

About this book

First published in 1937 by W. H. D. Rouse (1863-1950), public domain. In his preface to this edition Rouse calls The Odyssey "the best story ever written... it has been a favourite for three thousand years."This is a widely-used literal prose translation of the classic epic. It ends with a chapter discussing the language of Homer, and how the original text might be received by his contemporaries.The Odyssey was the first and probably the greatest adventure story of all time. Each age has had its translators of Homer, each finding in him the peculiar weather of that age. The Elizabethans found him a Renaissance man, Pope found him an Augustan, Matthew Arnold a Victorian. It was perhaps inevitable that T. E. Lawrence, and W.H.D. Rouse, should have called him the father of the modern novel.

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Information

Publisher
Rare Treasure Editions
eBook ISBN
9788087888506
Edition
0
Subtopic
Classics

Table of contents

  1. A Magnificent Saga
  2. PREFACE
  3. BOOK I What Went On in the House of Odysseus
  4. BOOK II How the Council Met in the Market-place of Ithaca; and What Came of It
  5. BOOK III What Happened in Sandy Pylos
  6. BOOK IV What Happened in Lacedaimon
  7. BOOK V HermĂȘs is Sent to Calypso’s Island; Odysseus Makes a Raft and is Carried to the Coast of Scheria
  8. BOOK VI How Odysseus Appealed to NausicaĂ€, and She Brought Him to Her Father’s House
  9. BOOK VII What Happened to Odysseus in the Palace of Alcinoös
  10. BOOK VIII How They Held Games and Sports in Phaiacia
  11. BOOK IX How Odysseus Visited the Lotus-eaters and the Cyclops
  12. BOOK X The Island of the Winds; the Land of the Midnight Sun; CircĂȘ
  13. BOOK XI How Odysseus Visited the Kingdom of the Dead
  14. BOOK XII The Singing Sirens, and the Terrors of Scylla and Charybdis
  15. BOOK XIII How Odysseus Came to Ithaca
  16. BOOK XIV Odysseus and the Swineherd
  17. BOOK XV How Telemachos Sailed Back to Ithaca
  18. BOOK XVI How Telemachos Met His Father
  19. BOOK XVII How Odysseus Returned to His Own Home
  20. BOOK XVIII How Odysseus Fought the Sturdy Beggar
  21. BOOK XIX How the Old Nurse Knew Her Master
  22. BOOK XX How God Sent Omens of the Wrath to Come
  23. BOOK XXI The Contest With the Great Bow
  24. BOOK XXII The Battle in the Hall
  25. BOOK XXIII How Odysseus Found His Wife Again
  26. BOOK XXIV How Odysseus Found His Old Father and How the Story Ended
  27. Homer’s Words