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What it's about
Ten years after Troy falls, Odysseus is still trying to get home to Ithaca, past the Cyclops, Circe, the Sirens and the land of the dead, while suitors eat through his house and press his wife Penelope to remarry. Butler's plain prose translation reads like a novel, in all twenty-four books.
Reading plan
Pick a finish date and Genius lays out the days — the plan shows today's target and keeps you honest.
Read together
Start a circle and share the code — everyone sees everyone's honest place in the book. Accountability, not leaderboards.
Who it's for
- Anyone starting on the classics - Readers who want the homecoming story behind a thousand retellings - Anyone who finds verse translations hard going
