18 books like The Odyssey of Homer
Apparition Poems
*Apparition Poems*, by American artist Adam Fieled, is an **epic in fragments**, and includes poems which run the formal and thematic gamut- sonnets, monologues, lyrics, meta-poems, and poems of philosophical inquiry. It was released as a Blazevox print book in 2010.
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The Crying of Lot 49
Oedipa Maas, executor of the will of Pierce Inverarity, journeys through a bizarre underground of secret societies, jazz clubs, beatniks, and her own psyche. Readers accustomed to postmodern literature will revel in Pynchon's second novel.
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The Odyssey of Homer
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Apollonius Rhodius
"Apollonius Rhodius's Argonautica, composed in the third century B.C.E., is the epic retelling of Jason's quest for the golden fleece. Along with his contemporaries Callimachus and Theocritus, Apollonius refashioned Greek poetry to meet the interests and aesthetics of a Hellenistic audience, especially that of Alexandria in the Ptolemaic period following Alexander's death. In this carefully…
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The Odyssey
A new translation of the epic poem retells the story of Odysseus's ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.
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The Complete Poetical Works
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Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell was a volume of poetry published jointly by the three Brontë sisters,  Charlotte,  Emily and Anne in 1846 (see 1846 in poetry), and their first work to ever go in print. To evade contemporary prejudice against female writers, the Brontë sisters adopted androgynous first names. All three retained the…
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Les contemplations
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Beowulf, with the Finnsburg fragment
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Ἰλιάς
This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century—while leaving the poem as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever. Lattimore's elegant, fluent verses—with their memorably phrased heroic epithets and remarkable fidelity to the Greek—remain unchanged, but classicist Richard Martin has added a wealth of supplementary materials designed…
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Marmion
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The Wanderings of Odysseus
A retelling of the adventures of Odysseus on his long voyage home from the Trojan War.
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Beowulf
A retelling of the classic tale of Beowulf, appropriate for young adults.
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Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary
From his creative attention to detail in these lectures there arises a sense of the immediacy and clarity of his vision. It is as if he entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf and his men shaking out their mail shirts as they beached their ship on the coast of Denmark, listening to the rising anger of Beowulf at the taunting of Unferth, or looking up in amazement at Grendel's…
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The One-Eyed Giant
Retells a part of the Odyssey in which King Odysseus fights the cyclops.
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Tales From the Odyssey #2
Odysseus is far from home, tossed by stormy seas and cursed by an angry one-eyed giant. After twenty years of fighting monsters, angering gods and goddesses, and surviving against the odds, Odysseus returns home and faces more dangerous enemies.
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Homer and His Age
A fantastic look at the life and times of the ancient Greek epic poet Homer by famed anthropologist Andrew Lang.
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Cyropaedia
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