The Odyssey: Rendered into English Prose for the Use of Those Who Cannot Read the Original
800 BC
The Odyssey: Rendered into English Prose for the Use of Those Who Cannot Read the Original
800 BC
Translated by Samuel Butler
The Odyssey is the original homecoming story, a ten-year voyage that asks what it costs to return to the life you left behind. Odysseus, the clever hero of Troy, faces cyclopes, seductive goddesses, hungry seas, and the dead on his road back to Ithaca. But the true test isn't the monsters: it's whether the man who left still exists when he steps on his own shore. His wife Penelope has spent twenty years weaving and unweaving a shroud, outwitting suitors who devour his estate. His son Telemachus must grow from boy to man without ever knowing his father. This prose translation brings Homer's ancient masterpiece into clear, accessible English, stripping away nothing of the adventure, the longing, the dark humor, the heartbreak. Every quest story ever written walks in Odysseus's footsteps.
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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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