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The Odyssey
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Ten years after the fall of Troy, Ulysses (Odysseus), king of Ithaca, is still struggling to reach home. Held captive by the nymph Calypso and pursued by the anger of Poseidon, he must face the Cyclops, the enchantress Circe, the land of the dead, the Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, while at home his faithful wife Penelope holds off a hall full of greedy suitors and his son Telemachus sets out to find news of his father. Homer's epic is one of the oldest and greatest adventure stories ever told.
Translated into English prose by Samuel Butler (1900).
