The Odyssey of Homer
1880
Ten years of war. Ten years adrift. One man fighting his way home through monsters, gods, and the impossible depths of his own endurance. Odysseus has been gone so long that men eat up his estate, pressing to marry his wife Penelope, while his son Telemachus has grown into a stranger in his own house. But the gods are not finished testing him. He will face the Cyclops, whose eye he plucks out with a sharpened stake. He will sail past the Sirens, whose song unspools every secret a man holds. He will descend into the dead and ask the prophet Tiresias what sacrifice is required to finally reach Ithaca. This is not a story of strength. It is a story of wit, patience, and the terrible price of belonging. For every reader who has ever been far from home, who has ever waited for someone who did not return, Homer offers the oldest, truest answer: keep going.
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“Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.””
— Homer
“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.””
— Homer
“There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.””
— Homer
“A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time””
— Homer
“Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.””
— Homer
“For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother””
— Homer
“Men are so quick to blame the gods: they saythat we devise their misery. But theythemselves- in their depravity- designgrief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.””
— Homer
“Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death””
— Homer
“My name is Nobody.””
— Homer
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