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  • I had to read this book for English class and (of course) I did it last minute but still loved every minute of it! I LOVE The Odyssey! Greek mythology is the bomb and I love Odysseus' journey! I loved everything about this book and Greek culture in general; the names, the gods and goddesses and h ... Continue

    I had to read this book for English class and (of course) I did it last minute but still loved every minute of it! I LOVE The Odyssey! Greek mythology is the bomb and I love Odysseus' journey! I loved everything about this book and Greek culture in general; the names, the gods and goddesses and how they interfere in the mortals lives, the humorous parts, the heartbreaking separation of husband and wife and father and son, and the eventual reunion. It was so sweet when Penelope realized it really was Odysseus in front of her and I was like "heck yeah!" when the blood bath in the end occurred, I was totally cheering on Odysseus and Telemachus! I would recommend this book to anyone and everyone!

    

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If The Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. Odysseus's reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance.

Translated by Robert Fagles
Introduction and Notes by Bernard Knox

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