The Odyssey of Homer in English

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The Odyssey as we have it is an epic of over twelve thousand lines. It has been divided, like the Iliad and probably at the same time, into twenty-four books. Book number and line number are the standard terms of reference.

  1. 08/15/2025

    BOOK 24

    BOOK XXIV Hermes of Kyllene summoned the souls of the suitors to come forth, and in his hands he was holding the beautiful golden staff, with which he mazes the eyes of those mortals whose eyes he would maze, or wakes again the sleepers. Herding 5 them on with this, he led them along, and they followed, gibbering.

    22 min

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    BOOK 23

    BOOK XXIII The old woman, laughing loudly, went to the upper chamber to tell her mistress that her beloved husband was inside the house. Her knees moved swiftly, but her feet were tottering. She stood above Penelope's head and spoke a word to her: 5 ‘Wake, Penelope, dear child, so that, with your own eyes, you can see what all your days you have been longing for.

    14 min

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    BOOK 22

    BOOK XXII Now resourceful Odysseus stripped his rags from him, and sprang up atop the great threshold, holding his bow and the quiver filled with arrows, and scattered out the swift shafts before him on the ground next his feet, and spoke his word to the suitors: 5 ‘Here is a task that has been achieved, without any deception.

    21 min

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    BOOK 21

    BOOK XXI But now the goddess, gray-eyed Athene, put it in the mind of the daughter of Ikarios, circumspect Penelope, to set the bow before the suitors, and the gray iron, in the house of Odysseus: the contest, the beginning of the slaughter. 5 So she ascended the high staircase of her own house, and in her solid hand took up the beautiful, brazen and artfully curved key, with an ivory handle upon it.

    20 min

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    BOOK 20

    BOOK XX Then the noble Odysseus bedded down in the forecourt, and spread beneath him the raw hide of an ox, and uppermost many fleeces of sheep the Achaians had dedicated.

    17 min

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    BOOK 19

    BOOK XIX Now great Odysseus still remained in the hall, pondering how, with the help of Athene, he would murder the suitors. Presently he spoke in winged words to Telemachos: ‘Telemachos, we must have the weapons stored away inside 5 the high chamber; and when the suitors miss them and ask you about them, answer

    19 min

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    BOOK 18

    BOOK XVIII And now there arrived a public beggar, who used to go begging through the town of Ithaka, known to fame for his ravenous belly and appetite for eating and drinking. There was no real strength in him, nor any force, but his build was big to look at. 5 He had the name Arnaios, for thus the lady his mother called him from birth, but all the young men used to call him Iros, because he would run and give messages when anyone told him.

    19 min

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    BOOK 17

    BOOK XVII But when the young Dawn showed again with her rosy fingers, Telemachos, beloved son of godlike Odysseus, then bound underneath his feet the beautiful sandals, and took up a powerful spear which fitted his hand's grip, 5 on his way to the city, and going he spoke to his swineherd: ‘Father, I am going to the city, so that my mother

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The Odyssey as we have it is an epic of over twelve thousand lines. It has been divided, like the Iliad and probably at the same time, into twenty-four books. Book number and line number are the standard terms of reference.

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