Book: The Odyssey

• The Odyssey: Book 1

  Tell me, o muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide
  after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit,

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• The Odyssey: Book 10

  Thence we went on to the Aeoli island where lives Aeolus son of
  Hippotas, dear to the immortal gods. It is an island that floats (as

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• The Odyssey: Book 11

  Then, when we had got down to the sea shore we drew our ship into
  the water and got her mast and sails into her; we also put the sheep

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• The Odyssey: Book 4

  They reached the low lying city of Lacedaemon them where they
  drove straight to the of abode Menelaus [and found him in his own

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• The Odyssey: Book 12

  After we were clear of the river Oceanus, and had got out into
  the open sea, we went on till we reached the Aeaean island where there

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• The Odyssey: Book 22

  Then Ulysses tore off his rags, and sprang on to the broad
  pavement with his bow and his quiver full of arrows. He shed the

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• The Odyssey: Book 13

  Thus did he speak, and they all held their peace throughout the
  covered cloister, enthralled by the charm of his story, till presently

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• The Odyssey: Book 8

  Now when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared,
  Alcinous and Ulysses both rose, and Alcinous led the way to the

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• The Odyssey: Book 14

  Ulysses now left the haven, and took the rough track up through
  the wooded country and over the crest of the mountain till he

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• The Odyssey: Book 24

  Then Mercury of Cyllene summoned the ghosts of the suitors, and in
  his hand he held the fair golden wand with which he seals men's eyes

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• The Odyssey: Book 15

  But Minerva went to the fair city of Lacedaemon to tell Ulysses' son
  that he was to return at once. She found him and Pisistratus

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• The Odyssey: Book 6

  So here Ulysses slept, overcome by sleep and toil; but Minerva
  went off to the country and city of the Phaecians- a people who used

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• The Odyssey: Book 16

  Meanwhile Ulysses and the swineherd had lit a fire in the hut and
  were were getting breakfast ready at daybreak for they had sent the

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• The Odyssey: Book 21

  Minerva now put it in Penelope's mind to make the suitors try
  their skill with the bow and with the iron axes, in contest among

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• The Odyssey: Book 17

  When the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared,
  Telemachus bound on his sandals and took a strong spear that suited

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• The Odyssey: Book 23

  Euryclea now went upstairs laughing to tell her mistress that her
  dear husband had come home. Her aged knees became young again and

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• The Odyssey: Book 18

  Now there came a certain common tramp who used to go begging all
  over the city of Ithaca, and was notorious as an incorrigible

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• The Odyssey: Book 3

  But as the sun was rising from the fair sea into the firmament of
  heaven to shed Blight on mortals and immortals, they reached Pylos the

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• The Odyssey: Book 19

  Ulysses was left in the cloister, pondering on the means whereby
  with Minerva's help he might be able to kill the suitors. Presently he

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• The Odyssey: Book 5

  And now, as Dawn rose from her couch beside Tithonus- harbinger of light alike to mortals and immortals- the gods met in council and wit

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• The Odyssey: Book 2

  Now when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared,
  Telemachus rose and dressed himself. He bound his sandals on to his

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• The Odyssey: Book 7

  Thus, then, did Ulysses wait and pray; but the girl drove on to
  the town. When she reached her father's house she drew up at the

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• The Odyssey: Book 20

  Ulysses slept in the cloister upon an undressed bullock's hide, on
  the top of which he threw several skins of the sheep the suitors had

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• The Odyssey: Book 9

  And Ulysses answered, King Alcinous, it is a good thing to hear a
  bard with such a divine voice as this man has. There is nothing bet

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