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Odyssey

The Odyssey of Homer, translated by Samuel Butler

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[The Iliad Translation and Notes]

  1. Homer Odyssey - Book 1
    The Gods in Council
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  2. Homer Odyssey - Book 2
    Telemachus Calls the Assembly in Ithaca
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  3. Homer Odyssey - Book 3
    Telemachus visits Nestor
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  4. Homer Odyssey - Book 4
    Telemachus visits Helen and Menelaus
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  5. Homer Odyssey - Book 5
    The gods tell Calypso to let Odysseus go
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  6. Homer Odyssey - Book 6
    Odysseus and Nausicaa in the land of the Phaeacians
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  7. Homer Odyssey - Book 7
    Odyseeus meets the king and queen of the Phaeacians
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  8. Homer Odyssey - Book 8
    Phaeacians provide a ship
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  9. Homer Odyssey - Book 9
    Odysseus tells about his adventures
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  10. Homer Odyssey - Book 10
    Odysseus tells of his visit to Aeolus
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  11. Homer Odyssey - Book 11
    Odysseus' Nekuia
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  12. Homer Odyssey - Book 12
    Return to Circe's island to bury Elpenor
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  13. Homer Odyssey - Book 13
    Phaeacians give Odysseus gifts
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  14. Homer Odyssey - Book 14
    In disguise, Odysseus finds his swineherd Eumaeus
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  15. Homer Odyssey - Book 15
    Telemachus heads home
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  16. Homer Odyssey - Book 16
    Telemachus and Odysseus are reunited
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  17. Homer Odyssey - Book 17
    Odysseus goes to his palace
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  18. Homer Odyssey - Book 18
    Odysseus, as a beggar, fights another beggar
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  19. Homer Odyssey - Book 19 Odysseus and Telemachus plot
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  20. Homer Odyssey - Book 20
    Odysseus and Penelope take turns with insomnia
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  21. Homer Odyssey - Book 21
    The book of the bow
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  22. Homer Odyssey - Book 22
    The book of the slaughter
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  23. Homer Odyssey - Book 23
    Testing and Reconciliation of Penelope and Odysseus
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  24. Homer Odyssey - Book 24
    Peace Restored
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