- Kind of writing
- Epic poetry
- Dialect
- Ionic/Epic
- Written
- 8th c. BC
- Length
- 104,364 words analysed
- Vocabulary
- 59% common words
- In the library
- 1 Greek text, 2 English translations
The texts
Each is the collection's own file, read unchanged from the Perseus Digital Library or Open Greek and Latin. The description is theirs too.
- Greek textHomer. The Odyssey, Volume 1-2. Murray, A. T. (Augustus Taber), editor. London: William Heinmann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1919.
- English translationHomer. The Odyssey, Volume 1-2. Murray, A. T. (Augustus Taber), translator. London: William Heinmann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1919.
- English translationHomer. The Odyssey: rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original. Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902, translator. Revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy. London: A.C. Fifield, 1900.
In The Painted Stoa
Entries that quote or point to this work's Greek.
Windows onto a world at peace, opened in the middle of a warHomer's similesThe Iliad is a poem about a few weeks of killing outside Troy.Minos' city in legend, and the palace Arthur Evans dug up and rebuilt in concreteKnossos and the labyrinthHomer knew Knossos as "a great city" where Minos was king, and later Greeks told of the labyrinth that Daedalus built there for the Minotaur.Healing herbs, killing cups and the smoke of the ScythiansDrugs and poisonsThe Greeks had one word for a medicine, a poison and a magic spell: pharmakon.Bought, captured, born or kidnapped: the people Greek freedom rested onSlaveryGreek cities had slaves, and classical Athens, the city that invented democracy, had a great many.