The Odyssey | Suggested Reading

The Odyssey What Do I Read Next?

. The Iliad is the other epic poem written by Homer, and it tells some of the events of the Trojan War which take place before the opening of the Odyssey. The best translations into English are those of Lattimore (Harper & Row, 1967) and Fagles (Viking, 1996).

. Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem Ulysses takes a look at Odysseus in later life and is generally regarded as one of the better examples of English Romantic verse. He also wrote The Lotos-Eaters, focusing on a specific incident from Book 9 of the Odyssey.

. Nikos Kazantzakis (author of, among other works, The Last Temptation of Christ) wrote his Odyssey in 1938. In this work, Odysseus is presented as a dissatisfied and wandering man who leaves home, kidnaps Helen, and travels all across the known world-part of the way on an iceberg.

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