The Odyssey, Homer
The Odyssey, Homer
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The Odyssey
Penguin Classics

Author: Homer, E. V. Rieu, D. C. H. Rieu, Peter Jones

Narrator: George Blagden

Unabridged: 13 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/26/2019

Synopsis

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This Penguin Classic is performed by George Blagden, star of Versailles and Vikings. This definitive recording is translated by E.V. Rieu, revised by D.C.H. Rieu, and contains an introduction by Peter Jones.

The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural and supernatural threats - shipwrecks, battles, monsters and the implacable enmity of the sea-god Poseidon - Odysseus must use his wit and native cunning if he is to reach his homeland safely and overcome the obstacles that, even there, await him.

(c) 1946, E. V. Rieu (P) 2019 Penguin Audio

About Homer

Homer is a legendary ancient Greek poet, traditionally said to be the author of the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. The ancient Greeks generally believed that Homer was a historical individual, but modern scholars are skeptical: no reliable biographical information has been handed down from classical antiquity, and the poems themselves manifestly represent the culmination of many centuries of oral storytelling and a well-developed "formulaic" system of poetic composition. It has been suggested that "Homer" is "not the name of a historical poet, but a fictitious or constructed name."

Reviews

Goodreads review by s.penkevich [hiatus-will return-miss you all] on August 14, 2025

Apropos of the upcoming film adaptation discourse, Have you considered who you would cast as Odysseus? But have you also considered that getting on a boat is a bad idea? Let’s explore! With literature. It’s like a lame Reading Rainbow episode about to happen, here we go: When you stop and think about......more

Goodreads review by Sasha on February 27, 2015

"Okay, so here's what happened. I went out after work with the guys, we went to a perfectly nice bar, this chick was hitting on me but I totally brushed her off. Anyway we ended up getting pretty wrecked, and we might have smoked something in the bathroom, I'm not totally clear on that part, and the......more

Goodreads review by Charlotte on January 13, 2019

Quite possibly one of my favourite books! It was this novel that ignited my love for Greek and Roman mythology and antiquity - leading me to choose a degree in Classical Civilisations. I always look back on The Odyssey with fondness - I love all the monsters he faces and the gods who involve themselve......more

Goodreads review by Leonard on January 30, 2023

I first read Homer in the 19th-century French translation by Leconte de Lisle — the equivalent, say, of the 18th-century translation into English by Alexander Pope: a pompous, archaic and exhausting bore of a book. I kept my chin up and, after a while, tried another inflated Frenchman: the 1955 tran......more

Goodreads review by Bella on May 05, 2025

long distance couple goals......more

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