The Odyssey
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The Odyssey Summer Study Guide: Click here
The Odyssey Independent Project: Click here
Primary Sources:
Digital PDF of the best translation of The Odyssey by Robert Fagles: Click here
Digital PDF of a translation I enjoy by Dr. Stanley Lombardo of U of Kansas: Click here
The Chicago Homer--an exhaustive searchable database on the original Greek: Click here
Decent, translation of The Odyssey text (Butler), don't love but it will work: Click here
*Highly recommended*Audio book (Fagles), read by Sir Ian McKellan : Click here
Classroom Sources:
Secondary Sources:
Link back to Chilton's webpage for the "author," Homer: Click here
Want to own a copy of the book we're reading in class? Click here
Translation Comparison Chart to help readers decide which version to read: Click here
Scholarly Supplemental Essays on Independent Research Project topics: Click here
Interesting collection of websites about Homer, Iliad, Odyssey from UNC: Click here
Introduction to The Odyssey from Columbia University: Click here
Video documentary about the Odyssey: Click here
Study guide with basic summaries of each book from Duke University: Click here
Intro to Greek culture and history from Emory University: Click here
Interesting introduction to Homer and his writings from Univ. of Idaho professor: Click here
The Iliad's opening 19 lines read dramatically in their original Greek pronunciation: Click here
The Odyssey's opening 20 lines, in three different translations: Click here
The Odyssey in the original Greek: Click here
Google Map of commonly mentioned places in The Odyssey: Click here
Interesting memoir chapter from David Denby's Great Books: Click here
Insightful essay from Norman Austin's Archery at the Dark of the Moon: Click here
The exhaustive resources on The Odyssey from The Perseus Project: Click here
Phenomenal website from the University of Michigan: Click here
Possible recreation of how the Odyssey could have been "sung" by ancient bards: Click here
Famous essay about Homer's writings from Erich Auerbach in his book Mimesis: Click here
Mythbuster's Episode trying to debunk Odysseus' mythical arrow shot: Link
Artist's rendering of Ulysses' deriding Polyphemus: Click here
Getty Museum (in LA!) featuring early Odyssey Greek papyri: Click here
Anticolonial Poem reimagining the Odyssey by Aime Cesaire: Click here
Introduction to the Odyssey: Click here
Ithaca poem by C.P. Cavafy: Click here
Various versions of the "Ithaca" poem by C.P. Cavafy: Click here
The Science behind the myth (TED talk): (Safeshare Link):Click here
The beginning of The Odyssey spoken in the original Greek: Click here
Ancient Artwork and Artifacts related to The Odyssey:
Odysseus: Click here
Penelope: Click here
Telemachus: Click here
Athena: Click here
Homer: Click here
The Iliad: Click here
Translator and Professor, Barry Powell on The Odyssey: Click here
The Strange History Behind Greek Mythology from the BBC: Click here
BBC In Our Time Podcast on the Odyssey: Click here
Performing Epic--Theater and Ancient Epic: Click here
Whose Odyssey is it anyway? Post-colonial Odysseys: Click here
"On Not Knowing Greek," an essay by Virginia Woolf: Click here
Song: "Home at Last" by Steely Dan: Click here
Song: "Tales of Brave Ulysses" by 60's rock legends, Cream: Click here
Story Map for The Odyssey: Link
Summer Reading for the Odyssey and Slaughterhouse-Five in AP Lit: Click here
Teaching The Odyssey in AP Lit: Click here
Teaching The Odyssey in AP Lit, Teaching Guide from Prestwick House: Click here
Teaching Resource from Yale: Click here
Teaching Guide from Penguin: Click here
Full-length Odyssey Movie (1997):