Odyssey

The Odyssey is Homer's epic of homecoming - the ten-year voyage of Odysseus back from Troy, through monsters, gods and the lure of the sea - published here in Alexander Pope's celebrated verse translation.After the fall of Troy, the hero Odysseus sets sail for his island kingdom of Ithaca, but a single journey becomes a ten-year ordeal of shipwreck, enchantment, and divine wrath, while at home his...