The Odyssey

Introduction

Translator's note

Maps. The world of The odyssey

The Aegean and Asia Minor

Mainland Greece

The Peloponnese

The odyssey. The boy and the goddess

A dangerous journey

An old king remembers

What the sea god said

From the goddess to the storm

A princess and her laundry

A magical kingdom

The songs of a poet

A pirate in a shepherd's cave

The winds and the witch

The dead

Difficult choices

Two tricksters

A loyal slave

The prince returns

Father and son

Insults and abuse

Two beggars

The queen and the beggar

The last banquet

An archery contest

Bloodshed

The olive tree bed

Restless spirits.

Introduction: The spelling and pronunciation of Homeric names

Maps: Homeric geography : Mainland Greece ; Homeric geography : the Peloponnese ; Homeric geography : the Aegean and Asia Minor

Inset: Troy and vicinity

Homer: Odyssey. Athena inspires the prince

Telemachus sets sail

King Nestor remembers

The king and queen of Sparta

Odysseus

Nymph and shipwreck

The princess and the stranger

Phaeacia's halls and gardens

A day for songs and contests

In the one-eyed giant's cave

The bewitching queen of Aeaea

The kingdom of the dead

The cattle of the sun

Ithaca at last

The loyal swineherd

The prince sets sail for home

Father and son

Stranger at the gates

The beggar-king of Ithaca

Penelope and her guest

Portents gather

Odysseus strings his bow

Slaughter in the hall

The great rooted bed

Peace

Notes: Translator's postscript ; Genealogies ; Textual variants fromt he Oxford classical text ; Notes on the translation

Pronouncing glossary.