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The Odyssey

Homer · Translated by Samuel Butler, 1900

Homer

The Odyssey

Translated by Samuel Butler, 1900

What this is

Ten years of one man trying to get home from Troy, told out of order: the first four books are about his son looking for him, and Odysseus himself tells the middle of his own story at a dinner party.

How it is set

One leaf per book, with the sections numbered inside it as Long numbers them. A section of Marcus is often three lines, and a page holding three lines is not a page.

What is not here

Notes. These books have the text and nothing else at present — no map, no lives, no commentary. The Gospel of St Luke shows what an annotated book looks like on this shelf, and these will follow it. An empty heading is better than invented filler.

The 24 books

  1. I THE GODS IN COUNCIL—MINERVA’S VISIT TO ITHACA—THE CHALLENGE FROM TELEMACHUS TO THE… 1 sections
  2. II ASSEMBLY OF THE PEOPLE OF ITHACA—SPEECHES OF TELEMACHUS AND OF THE SUITORS—TELEMACHUS MAKES HIS… 1 sections
  3. III TELEMACHUS VISITS NESTOR AT… 1 sections
  4. IV THE VISIT TO KING MENELAUS, WHO TELLS HIS STORY—MEANWHILE THE SUITORS IN ITHACA PLOT AGAINST… 1 sections
  5. V CALYPSO—ULYSSES REACHES SCHERIA ON A… 1 sections
  6. VI THE MEETING BETWEEN NAUSICAA AND… 1 sections
  7. VII RECEPTION OF ULYSSES AT THE PALACE OF KING… 1 sections
  8. VIII BANQUET IN THE HOUSE OF ALCINOUS—THE… 1 sections
  9. IX ULYSSES DECLARES HIMSELF AND BEGINS HIS STORY—-THE CICONS, LOTOPHAGI, AND… 1 sections
  10. X AEOLUS, THE LAESTRYGONES,… 1 sections
  11. XI THE VISIT TO THE… 1 sections
  12. XII THE SIRENS, SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS, THE CATTLE OF THE… 1 sections
  13. XIII ULYSSES LEAVES SCHERIA AND RETURNS TO… 1 sections
  14. XIV ULYSSES IN THE HUT WITH… 1 sections
  15. XV MINERVA SUMMONS TELEMACHUS FROM LACEDAEMON—HE MEETS WITH THEOCLYMENUS AT PYLOS AND BRINGS HIM… 1 sections
  16. XVI ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO… 1 sections
  17. XVII TELEMACHUS AND HIS MOTHER MEET—ULYSSES AND EUMAEUS COME DOWN TO THE TOWN, AND ULYSSES IS… 1 sections
  18. XVIII THE FIGHT WITH IRUS—ULYSSES WARNS AMPHINOMUS—PENELOPE GETS PRESENTS FROM THE SUITORS—THE… 1 sections
  19. XIX TELEMACHUS AND ULYSSES REMOVE THE ARMOUR—ULYSSES INTERVIEWS PENELOPE—EURYCLEA WASHES HIS FEET… 1 sections
  20. XX ULYSSES CANNOT SLEEP—PENELOPE’S PRAYER TO DIANA—THE TWO SIGNS FROM HEAVEN—EUMAEUS AND… 1 sections
  21. XXI THE TRIAL OF THE AXES, DURING WHICH ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO EUMAEUS AND… 1 sections
  22. XXII THE KILLING OF THE SUITORS—THE MAIDS WHO HAVE MISCONDUCTED THEMSELVES ARE MADE TO CLEANSE THE… 1 sections
  23. XXIII PENELOPE EVENTUALLY RECOGNISES HER HUSBAND—EARLY IN THE MORNING ULYSSES, TELEMACHUS, EUMAEUS,… 1 sections
  24. XXIV THE GHOSTS OF THE SUITORS IN HADES—ULYSSES AND HIS MEN GO TO THE HOUSE OF LAERTES—THE PEOPLE OF… 1 sections
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Text: Homer, The Odyssey — Samuel Butler’s prose translation, 1900, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebook 1727, set unaltered. Butler also argued, at length and to general derision, that the Odyssey was written by a young Sicilian woman. The translation is not the worse for it.