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The Odyssey
Translated by William Cullen Bryant
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Edition details
- Publisher
- Standard Ebooks
- Digital edition date
- Feb 8, 2020
- Format
- EPUB
- Translated by
- William Cullen Bryant
About this translation
Homer's Odyssey exists in dozens of English translations. This BetterReads edition uses William Cullen Bryant's nineteenth-century verse (Harvard Classics)—formal, with Latin names such as Ulysses and Jove. Other well-known paths include Emily Wilson (2017, plain modern verse), Robert Fagles and Richmond Lattimore (twentieth-century classics), and Samuel Butler's plain prose (available below from Project Gutenberg, read-only without companions). No single translation is "the" Odyssey; choose the voice that fits you.
Other translations
Read-only alternates from Project Gutenberg — no BetterReads companions.
- Samuel Butler (prose · Project Gutenberg)
Plain prose translation. Read only — no chapter companions or Epic Lens.
Book Summary
Odysseus's long voyage home after Troy—Harvard Classics vol. 22 (Standard Ebooks).