The Odyssey

Homer

The Odyssey of Homer is the timeless epic of adventure, endurance, and homecoming.

Confronted by the Cyclops, enchanted by Circe, and opposed by the sea god Poseidon, Odysseus survives not by strength alone, but by intelligence, patience, disguise, cunning, and wit.

His struggle to reach Ithaca becomes at once a heroic voyage, a moral trial, and one of literature’s most enduring images of the human longing for home.

William Cullen Bryant’s English blank-verse translation has long been admired for its dignity, clarity, and poetic force, preserving Homer’s grandeur in a style both elevated and accessible.

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This is the English-language paperback edition of the classic book.

Homer. The Odyssey. Translated by William Cullen Bryant. First published: Homer: The Odyssey of Homer. Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cullen Bryant. 2 Volumes. J. R. Osgood, Boston 1871-1872. This edition follows the text of the first edition. Vollständige Neuausgabe, Göttingen 2026.

EAN: 9783753804736
The Classic English Blank-Verse Translation by William Cullen Bryant.

Sprachen: Englisch. 22,0 cm / 16,0 cm / 3,1 cm ( B/H/T )
LIWI Literatur- und Wissenschaftsverlag
Juli 2026 – 436 Seiten

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Overview: Key Facts at a Glance

Author: Traditionally attributed to Homer

Title: The Odyssey

Genre: Epic poem

Date of composition: Probably in the 8th or 7th century BC, most likely in Ionia

Period: Ancient Greece

Important characters: Odysseus; Penelope; Telemachus; Athena; Poseidon; Calypso; Circe; Nausicaa; Polyphemus; Eumaeus

Plot in one sentence: The epic recounts King Odysseus’s ten-year wanderings after the Trojan War, his adventurous return to Ithaca, and his struggle against the suitors of his wife Penelope.

Interesting facts: The Odyssey consists of 24 books and contains more than 12,000 lines written in dactylic hexameter. Its most famous episodes include the encounters with the Cyclops Polyphemus, the enchantress Circe, the Sirens, and the monsters Scylla and Charybdis.

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Famous Quotes

“Tell me, O Muse, of that sagacious man
Who, having overthrown the sacred town
Of Ilium, wandered far and visited
The capitals of many nations, learned
The customs of their dwellers, and endured
Great suffering on the deep.”

Book I, p. 9 of the LIWI edition

“How strange it is that mortals blame the gods
And say that we inflict the ills they bear,
When they, by their own folly and against
The will of fate, bring sorrow on themselves!”

Book I, p. 10

“And may the gods vouchsafe
To thee whatever blessing thou canst wish,
Husband and home and wedded harmony.
There is no better, no more blessed state,
Than when the wife and husband in accord
Order their household lovingly.”

Book VI, p. 112

“For not less dear
Than if he were a brother should we hold
The wise and gentle man who is our friend.”

Book VIII, p. 150

“I am Ulysses, and my father’s name
Laertes; widely am I known to men
As quick in shrewd devices, and my fame
Hath reached to heaven.”

Book IX, p. 151

“For there is naught
More sweet and dear than our own native land
And parents, though perchance our lot be cast
In a rich home, yet far from our own kin
And in a foreign land.”

Book IX, p. 151

“Noman is my name,
My father and my mother gave it me,
And Noman am I called by all my friends.”

Book IX, p. 162

“For discourse
There is a time; there is a time for sleep.”

Book XI, p. 202

“O world-renowned Ulysses! thou who art
The glory of the Achaians, turn thy barque
Landward, that thou mayst listen to our lay.”

Book XII, p. 218

“No being whom earth nourishes to breathe
Her air and move upon her face is more
The sport of circumstance than man.”

Book XVIII, p. 323

“Endure it, heart! thou didst bear worse than this.
When the grim Cyclops of resistless strength
Devoured thy brave companions, thou couldst still
Endure, till thou by stratagem didst leave
The cave in which it seemed that thou must die.”

Book XX, p. 356