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: Spelling and pronunciation of Homeric names

Maps: Homeric geography : Mainland Greece

Peloponnese

Aegean and Asia Minor

Inset: Troy and vicinity

Homer: Odyssey : Athena inspires the prince

Telemachus sets sail

King Nestor remembers

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.

Map: Wanderings of Ulysses and Aeneas

The world of Homer and the Odyssey

Introduction / Robert Squillace

A note on the translation

The Odyssey

Endnotes

Inspired by the Odyssey

Comments and questions

For further reading

Index.

Trouble at home

A gathering and a parting

In the Great Hall of Nestor

With Menelaos and Helen

A raft on the high seas

Laundry friends

The warmest welcome

Songs, challenges, dances, and gifts

A battle, the Lotos, and a savage's cave

Mad winds, laistrugonians, and an enchantress

The land of the dead

Evil song, a deadly strait, and forbidden herds

A strange arrival home

The house of the Swineherd

Son and father converging

Father and son reunited

Unknown in his own house

Fights in the Great Hall

Memory and dream in the palace

Dawn of the death-day

The stringing of the bow

Revenge in the Great Hall

Husband and wife at last

Last tensions and peace.

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.