Tag: Odyssey

This is a downloadable copy of the book.

About the book: The Odyssey focuses on the ten-year journey home of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, after the fall of Troy. Many accounts of Homer’s life circulated in classical antiquity, the most widespread being that he was a blind bard from Ionia, a region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey. Modern scholars consider these accounts legendary.

About the Author: Homer is the legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature.