After ten long years of war Troy is finally destroyed and the besieging Greeks depart for home. Odysseus and his men set sail for Ithaca, but their journey is far from easy. Captured by Cyclops then detained by the nymph Calypso, it is only after a visit to the underworld and a miraculous escape from the witch Circe that Odysseus finally regains his island kingdom. But many years have passed since he was last there, and things are not as he left them. The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life.
The Odyssey is the sequel to The Iliad, the other epic poem attributed to Homer.
You can read The Odyssey online at Page by Page Books (and The Iliad at Read Print).
Have you read either of Homer's classic epic poems?
I remember reading both of them in freshman English at Rosati. I have to admit that I don't really remember them that well!
