Ancient Greek
Ὀδύσσεια
The Odyssey
Homer
The whole poem in Greek, with our translation under every line and every line read aloud.
24 books · 12,107 lines
The Telemachy
1The Gods in Council; Athena Counsels TelemachusThe gods meet while Odysseus sits on Calypso's island. Athena, in disguise, sends Telemachus to look for news of his father. The suitors feast in his hall. 2The Assembly at Ithaca; Telemachus Sets SailTelemachus calls the first assembly in twenty years and asks the suitors to go. They mock him. Athena finds him a ship, and he sails by night. 3Telemachus at Pylos: Nestor's TaleAt Pylos old Nestor tells Telemachus what he knows of the return from Troy, and sends him on to Sparta with his own son. 4Telemachus in Sparta; Menelaus, Helen, and the Old Man of the SeaMenelaus and Helen remember Odysseus. Menelaus tells how he trapped the Old Man of the Sea and learned Odysseus is alive. The suitors plan to kill Telemachus.The Wanderings
5Calypso; Odysseus Builds a Raft and the Storm at SeaZeus orders Calypso to let Odysseus go. He builds a raft and sails seventeen days. Poseidon wrecks him, and he swims ashore at Scheria. 6Odysseus and Nausicaa at the RiverNausicaa, the king's daughter, comes to the river to wash clothes and finds a stranger. She gives him a cloak and tells him the way to the palace. 7Odysseus at the Palace of AlkinoosOdysseus enters the palace of Alcinous, clasps the queen's knees and sits in the ashes by the hearth. The Phaeacians promise to carry him home. 8The Phaeacian Games and the Songs of DemodocusThe Phaeacians hold games for their guest. Demodocus sings of Troy, and the stranger weeps. Alcinous asks him who he is. 9Odysseus Tells His Tale: The Cicones, the Lotus-Eaters, and the CyclopsOdysseus tells his name and begins his story: the Cicones, the Lotus-Eaters, the cave of the Cyclops. He blinds Polyphemus and escapes under the sheep. 10Aeolus, the Laestrygonians, and CirceAeolus gives Odysseus a bag of winds, and his crew opens it in sight of Ithaca. The Laestrygonians sink eleven ships. Circe turns his men into pigs. 11The Book of the Dead: Odysseus Among the ShadesOdysseus sails to the edge of the world and calls up the dead: Tiresias, his mother, Agamemnon, Achilles, and the great sinners at their punishments. 12The Sirens; Scylla and Charybdis; the Cattle of the SunThe Sirens sing, and Odysseus hears them tied to the mast. The ship passes Scylla and Charybdis. His men kill the cattle of the Sun and drown.The Homecoming
13Odysseus Leaves Phaeacia; The Return to IthacaThe Phaeacians set Odysseus down asleep on Ithaca. Athena meets him, plans the suitors' deaths with him, and turns him into an old beggar. 14At the Hut of Eumaeus the SwineherdThe beggar goes to the hut of Eumaeus the swineherd, who feeds him and tells him the suitors are eating the house bare. 15Telemachus Sails Home; The Seer TheoclymenusAthena sends Telemachus home and warns him of the ambush. He takes a fugitive prophet aboard. Eumaeus tells how he was sold as a child. 16Father and Son: Odysseus Reveals Himself to TelemachusTelemachus reaches the hut. Athena restores Odysseus to his own shape, and father and son meet after twenty years. They plan the suitors' deaths. 17Odysseus Returns to His House as a BeggarThe beggar follows Telemachus to the palace. At the gate the old dog Argos knows his master and dies. Antinous throws a footstool at him. 18The Boxing Match with Irus; Penelope Before the SuitorsThe beggar Irus picks a fight and Odysseus fells him with one blow. Penelope comes down and draws gifts from the suitors. 19Penelope and the Beggar; The Recognition of the ScarPenelope questions the beggar. The old nurse Eurycleia washes his feet, finds the boar's scar, and knows him. Penelope tells her dream of the geese. 20The Night Before; Omens of the Suitors' DoomOdysseus lies awake and hears the maids go out to the suitors. Zeus thunders. At the feast Theoclymenus sees the hall full of ghosts. 21The Contest of the BowPenelope brings out the great bow. No suitor can string it. The beggar strings it without rising and shoots through the twelve axes. 22The Slaying of the SuitorsOdysseus shoots Antinous and names himself. With Telemachus, the swineherd and the cowherd he kills every suitor in the hall. 23Penelope Knows Her Husband; The Secret of the BedPenelope will not believe the news. She tests the stranger with the secret of their bed, built around a living olive tree, and he passes. 24The Ghosts of the Suitors; Laertes; Peace on IthacaThe suitors' souls go down to Hades. Odysseus finds his old father Laertes in the orchard. The families of the dead come for revenge, and Athena ends it.The particulars
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