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The Odyssey

Author: Homer

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Publisher Prints Publications Pvt Ltd
ISBN-13 9789394791626
Binding Paper back
Number of Pages 296 Pages
Language English
Dimension (Inches) 5.5"x8.5"
Weight (Grams) 372
Subject Classic Fiction
Category Fiction

Ten years after the Trojan War and the Fall of Troy, Odysseus, one of the war heroes, has still not returned to his kingdom, Ithaca. Assumed to be dead, his wife Penelope and son Telemachus must deal with a group of unruly suitors who have overrun Odysseus palace and ransacked his land, competing for Penelopes hand in marriage. But Odysseus is still alive; imprisoned on the island of Ogygia by Calypso, who is possessed by love for him and desires to make him her immortal husband. How will Odysseus return home? Will he reunite with his loving Penelope? The second oldest extant work of Western literature, it is an evocation of Homer grandiloquent revival of myths and legends narrated in this rare classic. Nearly three thousand years after its composition, the Odyssey still remains one of the most celebrated and widely read stories ever told.

Homer

Homer is thought to have lived c.750-700 BC in Ionia and is believed to be the author of the earliest works of Western Literature: The Odyssey and The Iliad. E V Rieu was a celebrated translator from Latin and Greek, and editor of Penguin Classics from 1944-64. His son, D C H Rieu, has revised his work. Peter Jones is former lecturer in Classics at Newcastle. He co-founded the ‘Friends of Classics’ society and is the editor of their journal and a columnist for The Spectator.

Preface to First Edition

6

Preface to Second Edition

12

BOOK I - The Gods tn Council—Minerva’s Visit to Ithaca—The Challenge From Telemachus to The Suitors

14

BOOK II- Assembly of The People of Ithaca—Speeches of Telemachus and of The Suitors—Telemachus Makes His Preparations and Starts for Pylos With Minerva Disguised as Mentor

23

BOOK III - Telemachus Visits Nestor at Pylos

33

BOOK IV - The Visit to King Menelaus, Who Tells His Story— Meanwhile The Suitors in Ithaca Plot Against Telemachus

44

BOOK V - Calypso—Ulysses Reaches Scheria on a Raft

62

BOOK VI - The Meeting Between Nausicaa And Ulysses

72

BOOK VII - Reception of Ulysses at The Palace of King Alcinous

80

BOOK VIII - Banquet in The House of Alcinous—The Games

88

BOOK IX - Ulysses Declares Himself and Begins His Story— The Cicons, Lotophagi, And Cyclopes

101

BOOK X - Aeolus, The Laestrygones, Circe

113

BOOK XI - The Visit to The Dead

125

BOOK XII - The Sirens, Scylla And Charybdis, The Cattle of The Sun

138

BOOK XIII - Ulysses Leaves Scheria and Returns to Ithaca

148

BOOK XIV - Ulysses In The Hut With Eumaeus

157

BOOK XV - Minerva Summons Telemachus from Lacedaemon— He Meets With Theoclymenus at Pylos and Brings Him to Ithaca— on Landing He Goes to The Hut of Eumaeus.

168

BOOK XVI - Ulysses Reveals Himself To Telemachus

180

BOOK XVII - Telemachus and His Mother Meet—Ulysses and Eumaeus Come Down to The Town, and Ulysses is Insulted By Melanthius—He is Recognised By The Dog Argos—He is Insulted and Presently Struck By Antinous With a Stool— Penelope Desires That He Shall Be Sent to Her

190

BOOK XVIII - The Fight With Irus—Ulysses Warns Amphinomus—Penelope Gets Presents From The Suitors— The Braziers—Ulysses Rebukes Eurymachus

203

BOOK XIX - Telemachus And Ulysses Remove The Armour— Ulysses Interviews Penelope—Euryclea Washes His Feet and Recognises The Scar on His Leg—Penelope Tells Her Dream to Ulysses

212

BOOK XX - Ulysses Cannot Sleep—Penelope’s Prayer to Diana— The Two Signs From Heaven—Eumaeus And Philoetius Arrive— The Suitors Dine—Ctesippus Throws an Ox’s Foot at Ulysses— Theoclymenus Foretells Disaster And Leaves The House

225

BOOK XXI - The Trial of The Axes, During Which Ulysses Reveals Himself to Eumaeus and Philoetius

234

BOOK XXII - The Killing of The Suitors—The Maids Who Have Misconducted Themselves are Made to Cleanse The Cloisters and are Then Hanged

243

BOOK XXIII - Penelope Eventually Recognises Her Husband— Early in The Morning Ulysses, Telemachus, Eumaeus, and Philoetius Leave The Town

254

BOOK XXIV - The Ghosts of The Suitors In Hades— Ulysses and His Men Go to The House of Laertes— The People of Ithaca Come Out to Attack Ulysses, But Minerva Concludes a Peace

262

Footnotes

274

 

 

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