The Odyssey

by Homer (Author), Emily Wilson (Translator)

The Odyssey is, along with The Iliad, one of the two oldest works of
literature in the Western tradition. It is an epic poem: “epic” both in the sense
that it is long, and in the sense that it presents itself as telling an important
story, in the traditional, formulaic language used by archaic poets for singing
the tales of gods, wars, journeys, and the collective memories and experience
of the Greek-speaking world.