Odyssey, Volume II: Books 13-24

The hero’s journey home from war.

Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of the resplendent epic tale of Odysseus’ long journey home from the Trojan War and the legendary temptations, delays, and perils he faced at every turn. Homer’s classic poem features Odysseus’ encounters with the beautiful nymph Calypso; the queenly but wily Circe; the Lotus—eaters, who fed his men their memory—stealing drug; the man—eating, one—eyed Cyclops; the Laestrygonian giants; the souls of the dead in Had...