![]() ![]() ![]() The cultural background to the poem indicates a Bronze Age setting around 400 to 500 years before the Homeric literary period itself. It is an epic poem, effectively a sequel to the Iliad, written in Ancient Greek but assumed to be derived from earlier oral sources, telling the story of Odysseus’ wanderings and his eventual return from the Trojan War to his home island of Ithaca. The Odyssey, the second of the epic texts attributed to Homer, and also a major founding work of European literature, is usually dated to around the 8th century BC. The Text is fully hyper-linked to the index and vice versa.Įach Book is arranged in paragraphs, with each paragraph headed by the corresponding line reference in the Greek text. In war and on the seas: add this then to the sum. I will endure it, owning a heart within inured to suffering.įor I have suffered much, and laboured much, A complete English translation with hyper-linked index and illustrations by Theodoor van Thulden (Dutch, 1606-1669) courtesy of the Rijksmuseum ![]()
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