The Odyssey

by Homer · c. 725 BCE

Samuel Butler's prose translation, 1900. 26 parts, about 120,111 words, 9 hours of reading. Source edition.

Passages the guide marks

Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.
Book 1, opening · Read it in Book I
I would rather be a paid servant in a poor man's house and be above ground than king of kings among the dead.
Book 11 · Read it in Book XI
Asked his name by the Cyclops, Odysseus answers that it is Nobody, and later cannot resist shouting his real name back from the ship.
Book 9 · Read it in Book IX
Penelope tests him by ordering the marriage bed carried out of the room, and he tells her it cannot be moved, because he cut it from a living olive tree still rooted in the floor.
Book 23 · Read it in Book XXIII

About this text

Public domain in the United States; the Project Gutenberg edition is free of restrictions under the Project Gutenberg License. Translated by Samuel Butler. It is not the edition the programs assign; the guide names that one, and the buy links there point at it.

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