'Muse, tell me of a man: a man of much resource, who was made to wander
far and long, after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy. Many were the
men whose lands he saw and came to know their thinking: many too the
miseries at sea which he suffered in his heart, as he sought to win his
own life and the safe return of his companions.'
Recounting the epic journey home of Odysseus from the Trojan War, The
Odyssey - alongside its sister poem The Iliad - stands as the
well-spring of Western Civilisation and culture, an inspiration to
poets, writers and thinkers for thousands of years since. This
authoritative prose translation by Martin Hammond brings Homer's great
poem of homecoming to life as Odysseus battles through such familiar
dangers as the cave of the Cyclops, the call of the Sirens and his
hostile reception back in his native land of Ithaca.