The Odyssey
by Homer
Translated by Samuel Butler
- Length
- 55 mornings, about 2,100 words a reading
About the book
The Odyssey is an epic poem from ancient Greece, traditionally credited to Homer and probably composed in the eighth or seventh century BCE. It tells of the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the Trojan War. This edition uses the prose translation by the English writer Samuel Butler, first published in 1900. Butler uses the Latin names of the gods, so Athena is Minerva, Zeus is Jove and Poseidon is Neptune, and he calls the hero by his Latin name, Ulysses.
Tags
Read it free by email
One reading every morning by 6am ET, for 55 mornings. Enter your email and we’ll send a link to confirm it. Your welcome email comes as soon as you confirm, and day 1 the next morning. A book you’ve stopped before picks up where you left off instead.
