18 books like The Odyssey of Homer

What to read after The Odyssey of Homer — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon · 1965 · ★ 3.8 · 187p · ≈ 6h · Moderate 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. Shares: Greek Epic poetry, Odysseus, Poetry

Apparition Poems Adam Fieled · 2006 · 6p · ≈ 12m · Moderate 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. Shares: Epic poetry, Poetry

Apollonius Rhodius Apollonius Rhodius · 1550 · ★ 3.8 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Demanding "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… Shares: Greek Epic poetry, Greek literature, Epic poetry, Poetry

The Odyssey Όμηρος · 1946 · ★ 3.9 A new translation of the epic poem retells the story of Odysseus's ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. Shares: Greek Epic poetry, Poetry

Ἰλιάς Όμηρος · 1505 · ★ 4.0 · 350p · ≈ 11h · Demanding 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… Shares: Greek Epic poetry, Odysseus, Poetry

Beowulf, with the Finnsburg fragment A. J. Wyatt · 1914 · 255p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Presents a new translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic chronicling the heroic adventures of Beowulf, the Scandinavian warrior who saves his people from the ravages of the monster Grendel and Grendel's mother. Shares: Epic poetry, Poetry

Homer and His Age Andrew Lang · 1906 · 234p · ≈ 7h · Challenging A fantastic look at the life and times of the ancient Greek epic poet Homer by famed anthropologist Andrew Lang. Shares: Greek Epic poetry, Epic poetry

Prolegomena ad Homerum, sive, De operum Homericorum prisca et genuina forma variisque mutationibus et probabili ratione emendandi Friedrich August Wolf · 1795 · 298p · ≈ 9h · Demanding Shares: Greek Epic poetry, Greek literature

Beowulf Ian Serraillier · 1954 · 47p · ≈ 1h · Moderate A retelling of the classic tale of Beowulf, appropriate for young adults. Shares: Epic poetry, Poetry

Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary J.R.R. Tolkien · 2001 · ★ 4.1 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate 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… Shares: Epic poetry, Poetry

Cyropaedia Xenophon · 1527 · ★ 3.9 · 305p · ≈ 10h · Demanding Xenophon of Athens (circa 430 – 354 B.C.) was a Greek poet, historian, soldier and philosopher who lived at a time of momentous events in Ancient Greek history. Although he was recognized as a great writer and poet in his lifetime, Xenophon’s involvement with Spartan politics and fighting led to his exile from Athens, and his association with Socrates probably did not help. His short treatise on… Shares: Greek literature, Poetry

Homer Όμηρος · 1833 · 360p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Homer (; , ; possibly born ) was an ancient Greek poet who is traditionally credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Homer was highly revered in ancient Greek society and is considered one of the most influential authors in history. The question of Homers identity and existence—dubbed the "Homeric… Shares: Greek Epic poetry, Poetry

The Fall of Arthur J.R.R. Tolkien · 2013 · ★ 3.3 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The first publication of a previously unknown narrative poem by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the extraordinary story of the final days of England's legendary hero, King Arthur. Shares: Epic poetry, Poetry

Les contemplations Victor Hugo · 1856 · ★ 4.0 · 457p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Les Contemplations est un recueil de poésie de Victor Hugo, publié en 1856. Il est composé de 158 poèmes rassemblés en six livres. La plupart de ces poèmes ont été écrits entre 1841 et 1855, mais les poèmes les plus anciens de ce recueil datent de 1830. Les Contemplations est un recueil du souvenir, de l’amour, de la joie mais aussi de la mort, du deuil et même d'une certaine foi mystique. Le… Shares: Poetry

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell Charlotte Brontë · 1846 · ★ 3.9 · 165p · ≈ 5h · Challenging 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… Shares: Poetry

The Complete Poetical Works Edgar Allan Poe · 1849 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Challenging The eerie tales of Edgar Allan Poe remain among the most brilliant, enduring, and influencial works in American literature. But Poe is also the author of some of the most haunting poetry ever written–poems of love, death and loneliness that have lost none of their power to enthrall in this unique Signet Classic edition. Shares: Poetry

Gilgamesh Stephen Mitchell · 2004 · ★ 4.0 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "Gilgamesh dates from as early as 1700 BCE - a thousand years before the Iliad. Lost for almost two millennia, the eleven clay tablets on which the epic was inscribed were discovered in 1853 in the ruins of Nineveh, and the text was not deciphered and fully translated until the end of the century." "The epic is the story of literature's first hero - the king of Uruk in what is present-day Iraq -… Shares: Epic poetry, Poetry

Aeneidos Publius Vergilius Maro · 1517 · 215p · ≈ 7h · Demanding Shares: Epic poetry, Poetry

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