the odyssey · homer

Homer's second epic follows Odysseus's ten-year journey home from Troy and his son's search for him, ending in the slaughter of the suitors who have besieged his house. Cunning against force, hospitality, loyalty, homecoming and the reordering of a household are its subjects, told with a novelist's relish for disguise and recognition.

Homer, The Odyssey, translated by Richmond Lattimore (Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2007). Read in full over two sessions, Freshman Fall at Torrey Honors.