The Odyssey · a Claudyssey

The Odyssey

a line-for-line translation · twenty-four books

  1. Book IAthena comes to Ithaca; Telemachus resolves to seek his father.
  2. Book IIThe assembly at Ithaca; Penelope's web; Telemachus sails by night.
  3. Book IIIPylos: Nestor's tales of the returns; Telemachus rides for Sparta.
  4. Book IVSparta: Helen and Menelaus remember Troy; Proteus; the suitors set their ambush.
  5. Book VCalypso's island: the raft, Poseidon's storm, the landing on Scheria.
  6. Book VINausicaa at the river; the naked stranger; the road to the city.
  7. Book VIIThe palace and gardens of Alcinous; Arete's question.
  8. Book VIIIThe games; the song of Ares and Aphrodite; the wooden horse, and the weeping guest.
  9. Book IX"I am Odysseus": the Cicones, the Lotus-eaters, and the Cyclops.
  10. Book XAeolus and the bag of winds; the Laestrygonians; a year with Circe.
  11. Book XIThe dead: Tiresias' prophecy, Anticleia, the heroines, Agamemnon, Achilles, Ajax.
  12. Book XIIThe Sirens; Scylla and Charybdis; the cattle of the Sun.
  13. Book XIIIThe sending home; the ship turned to stone; Athena and Odysseus on Ithaca.
  14. Book XIVThe hut of Eumaeus: the slave's welcome, the second Cretan tale, the cloak story.
  15. Book XVTelemachus called home; Theoclymenus; the life of Eumaeus.
  16. Book XVIFather and son: the recognition at the swineherd's hut.
  17. Book XVIIThe beggar comes to his own house; Argus; Antinous' footstool.
  18. Book XVIIIThe fight with Irus; the warning to Amphinomus; Penelope shines before the suitors.
  19. Book XIXThe interview by the fire; the scar; the contest announced.
  20. Book XXThe night before; the omens of the last day; the ox-hoof; Theoclymenus sees the dark.
  21. Book XXIThe bow: pedigree, contest, recruitment, and the stringing.
  22. Book XXIIThe slaughter in the hall.
  23. Book XXIIIThe bed; the test that Penelope wins; the long night held back.
  24. Book XXIVThe second Nekyia; Laertes and the trees; the peace of Ithaca.

Index of names & places — every person, god, people, and place in the poem, with pronunciations and linked citations.