Ten years after the fall of Troy, Odysseus still has not come home. His wife Penelope fends off a palace full of importunate suitors; his son Telemachus searches for news of a father he barely remembers; and Odysseus himself, imprisoned by the goddess Calypso who loves him, dreams of Ithaca. The Odyssey is the story of the journey home — through sirens and cyclopes, gods and storms — and of the stubborn human desire to return to where one belongs.If The Iliad is the epic of war, The Odyssey is the epic of endurance: a poem about what it means to keep going when every force in the universe seems to conspire against you. Homer's insight — that the deepest human desire is not glory but home, not conquest but belonging — gives the poem its universal resonance across three thousand years.This premium hardbound collector's edition with sprayed edges presents Homer's original, unabridged text — a foundational work of world literature in a format worthy of its stature.
