The Odyssey of Homer is the timeless epic of adventure, endurance, and homecoming.

Confronted by the Cyclops, enchanted by Circe, and opposed by the sea god Poseidon, Odysseus survives not by strength alone, but by intelligence, patience, disguise, cunning, and wit.

His struggle to reach Ithaca becomes at once a heroic voyage, a moral trial, and one of literature's most enduring images of the human longing for home.

William Cullen Bryant's English blank-verse translation has long been admired for its dignity, clarity, and poetic force, preserving Homer's grandeur in a style both elevated and accessible.

This is the English-language paperback edition of the classic book.

Homer.
The Odyssey.
Translated by William Cullen Bryant.
First published: Homer: The Odyssey of Homer.
Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cullen Bryant.
2 Volumes. J. R. Osgood, Boston 1871-1872.
This edition follows the text of the first edition.
Vollständige Neuausgabe, Göttingen 2026.