Homer - Study Guides

Here are quick, self-grading quizzes on the books of the Odyssey.

The 24 books with direct links to translations of the each book, summaries, and quizzes.

Homer was the most important and earliest of the Greek and Roman writers.

The Iliad, The Odyssey, Argonatica, Aeneid, Paradise Lost, with notes.

In addition to summarizing action from the first to twenty-fourth book, Robin Mitchell-Boyask tells in which books the events, going from day one to forty, occur.

Summaries of the books of The Iliad and relevant questions, followed by Organization and structure of The Iliad focusing on the alternation between night and day.

Robert Fagles answers the following readers' questions: What is Odysseus's moral compass? How much of The Odyssey is history, and how much is poetic fiction? How do we know Homer was blind? What explains the lack of color? Is a son incomplete without his father?