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The Odyssey is the second of Homer's two great epics, composed in ancient Greece around the 8th century BCE. After ten years besieging Troy, Odysseus spends ten more wandering the seas — held captive by Calypso, blinded the cyclops Polyphemus, escaping Circe's island, descending to Hades to consult the prophet Tiresias — while his wife Penelope holds off a house full of suitors and his son Telemachus searches for him. Read here in Samuel Butler's 1900 prose translation, which renders the verse epic in clean, novel-like English for modern readers.
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