Title: The Odyssey
Author: Homer
Written: circa 700 BCE
Translator: Emily Wilson, 2018
Pages: 582
Structure: 24 “books”, each about 400 to 900 lines (10 to 20 pages) long.
The Odyssey is a timeless tale about trying to return home. After fighting in a brutal war for a decade a brilliant but battered man, Odysseus, finds himself continually thwarted by misfortune for a second decade while he tries to come back to his family. At the same time his wife, Penelope, is harassed daily by suitors who try to convince her that her husband is dead and that she should marry one of them.
