Ancient Greek
Ὀδύσσεια
The Odyssey
Homer
The West’s first great homecoming, and the reason we still tell stories about wanderers.
Editions
On iPhone, iPad and Android
The app
Learn Ancient Greek by reading Homer. The whole poem in Greek beside our translation, read aloud, with every word glossed. Book 1 is free; one unlock covers the rest, $19.99.
Complete, in Ancient Greek
The audiobook
All twenty-four books: 12,107 lines, more than eighteen hours, performed in reconstructed pronunciation, with the pitch accent restored and every verse shaped to its hexameter. To our knowledge, the first complete audiobook of the Odyssey in Ancient Greek. Digital narration, directed by 1732 Studios.
The opening
Tap a line to unfold its translation. In the app, every word unfolds too.
The book
The Odyssey is the West’s first and greatest homecoming. For twenty years Odysseus is kept from Ithaca: by war, by the sea, by a one-eyed monster and a goddess who loves him. The poem follows not a conqueror but a husband, a father, and a man whose sharpest weapon is his mind. Homer invented half of what we still ask of a story: the wanderer, the monsters, the disguise, the long-delayed return, the recognition that breaks the heart. Read in its own Greek, line beside line, the wine-dark sea comes nearer than three thousand years should allow.
In the app
The original and the translation, side by side.
The author’s words align line by line with a clear English translation: two columns on iPad, a paired reading flow on iPhone.
Every line, read aloud.
Hear how the language actually sounds: its weight, its rhythm, not just how it looks on the page.
Notes for the line you’re on.
Tap any line for the grammar, the words, and the context behind it, written by us, for this text. An editor at your elbow.
Read aloud, and hear how you did.
Read a line yourself and the edition scores it on your phone: the whole line first, then sound by sound. Your voice never leaves the device.
The particulars
- The text
- Ὀδύσσεια, Homer
- Translation
- Public-domain Greek (Homer, ancient; text via the Perseus Digital Library). English translation © 2026 1732 Studios, LLC.
- Method
- The translations are our own, drafted with machine assistance and verified line by line. How the editions are made.
- The app
- The first chapter is free: the complete app, every feature. One unlock covers the rest, yours forever, $19.99. No subscription, no ads.
- Privacy
- Speech analysis runs on device. Your reading and your voice never leave your phone.