num_pages: 349
description: The first English prose translation of Homer's The Odyssey to appear in over thirty years, Shewring's translation comes as close to the spirit of the original Greek as our language will allow.
language: English
title: The Odyssey
titlecomplete: The Odyssey (The World's Classics)
characters: Minerva, Odysseus, Agamemnon, Penelope (wife of Odysseus), Telemachus, Polyphemus, Helen of Troy, Achilles
genres: Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Historical Fiction, School, Classics, Read For School, Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Adventure
ratings_count: 1039976
places: Ithaca
publisher: Oxford University Press