ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα, πολύτροπον Tell me the man, Muse — the man of many turnings

The Odyssey

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Cover: a Geometric-period Greek ship in bone on a wine-dark ground, framed by meander bands

A complete line-for-line English translation of Homer's Odyssey — every one of the 12,107 English lines keyed one-to-one to its Greek line, in a loose five-to-six-beat unrhymed measure.

Each book carries a scholarly annotation apparatus, and the volume closes with a full index of names and places — pronunciations, epithets, kin, and linked citations.

24 books
12,107 lines
1,260 notes
434 index entries

Read it

The EPUB has working bidirectional footnotes and a fully linked index. On Apple Books & Kobo the notes appear as tap-to-reveal popups.

What's inside

Line for line

One English line per Greek line, same numbering — you can read the two side by side.

The formulas kept

Homer's repeated epithets and whole-line refrains recur verbatim in the English wherever the Greek repeats.

Annotated

1,260 notes on the language, the myth, and the translation choices — as endnotes at the close of each book.

Indexed & spoken

Every named person and place, with a traditional anglicized pronunciation and links to every appearance.

About the text

The Greek is A. T. Murray's Loeb text (1919, public domain), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library. The English translation is original to this project. The source, the build pipeline, and every edition live in the repository.