num_pages: 509
description: One of the supreme masterpieces of world literature, the Homeric saga of the shipwrecks, wanderings, and homecoming of the master tactician Odysseus encompasses a virtual inventory of the themes and attitudes that have shaped Western culture. The tale of Odysseus’s encounters with such obstacles as Calypso, Circe, Scylla and Charybdis, the Sirens, and the lotus-eaters, and his dramatic return to Ithaca and his patient wife, Penelope, forms a prototype for all subsequent Western epics.Robert Fitzgerald’s much-acclaimed translation, fully possessing as it does the body and spirit of the original, has helped to assure the continuing vitality of Europe’s most influential work of poetry. This edition includes twenty-five new line drawings by Barnaby Fitzgerald.
language: English
title: The Odyssey
titlecomplete: The Odyssey
characters: Agamemnon, Achilles, Polyphemus, Helen of Troy, Minerva, Penelope (wife of Odysseus), Odysseus, Telemachus
genres: Classics, Adventure, Fantasy, Read For School, School, Greek Mythology, Historical Fiction, Poetry, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 1039546
places: Ithaca
publisher: Everyman's Library