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