Odyssey Additional Reading
A reading list names books on Homer, the Odyssey, and the Greek world for further study.
Barr, Stringfellow. The Will of Zeus. Dell.
Beye, Charles R. The Iliad, The Odyssey, and the Epic Tradition. Anchor.
Carpenter, Rhys. Folk Tale, Fiction and Saga in the Homeric Epics. University of California Press.
Clarke, Howard. The Art of the Odyssey. Spectrum.
Finley, M. I. The World of Odysseus. Rev. Ed. Penguin.
Graves, Robert. The Greek Myths. 2 vol. Penguin.
Hamilton, Edith. The Greek Way to Western Civilization. Norton.
—. Mythology. Mentor.
Harvey, Sir Paul. The Oxford Companion to Greek Literature.
Jebb, R. C. Homer, An Introduction to the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Lang, Andrew. The World of Homer.
Lessing, Erich. The Voyage of Ulysses: A Photographic Interpretation of Homer’s Classic. Herder, 1965.
Rouse, W. H. D. Gods, Heroes and Men of Ancient Greece. Signet.
Taylor, Charles H., Jr. Essays on the Odyssey: Selected Modern Criticism. Indiana University Press.
Translators of the Odyssey
George Chapman [1616, verse]
Butcher & Lang [a prose version using the language of the KJV Bible]
Robert Fitzgerald [most critically acclaimed]
A. T. Murray [Loeb library Greek/English version]
Alexander Pope [verse translation in heroic couplets]
E. V. Rieu [prose, popular in high schools]
W. H. D. Rouse [colloquial prose]