The Odyssey of Homer

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.