First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin a division of Penguin Books USA Inc.1996

Introduction: Spelling and pronunciation of Homeric names -- Maps: Homeric geography : Mainland Greece -- Peloponnese -- Aegean and Asia Minor -- Inset: Troy and vicinity -- Homer: Odyssey : Athena inspires the prince -- Telemachus sets sail -- King Nestor remembers -- King and queen of Sparta -- Odysseus- Nymph and shipwreck -- Princess and the stranger -- Phaeacia's halls and gardens -- Day for songs and contests -- In the one-eyed giant's cave -- Bewitching queen of Aeaea -- Kingdom of the dead -- Cattle of the sun -- Ithaca at last -- Loyal swineherd -- Prince sets sail for home -- Father and son -- Stranger at the gates -- Beggar-king of Ithaca -- Penelope and her guest -- Portents gather -- Odysseus strings his bow -- Slaughter in the hall -- Great rooted bed -- Peace

Translated by Robert Fagles, and with an introduction and notes by Bernard Knox, the team who collaborated on the award-winning edition of Homer's The Iliad, The Odyssey is Homer's classic account of the great wanderings of Odysseus

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Translated from the ancient Greek