The Odyssey
Composed to be performed aloud, three thousand years before anyone thought to print it.
- Listening time
- about 12 h 48 min
- Length
- 119,117 words
- First published
- c. 700 BC
- Public domain
- the author died in 1878
- Edition
- Edition and cover by Standard Ebooks, released CC0
- Download in the app
- 675 KB stored on your device
- Language
- English
- Shelf
- Start Here
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Free. Open the app, go to Discover, find the title and tap Get. It narrates on your device in the voice you choose, your own included. View the edition at standardebooks.org.
How it begins.
A council of the gods—Deliberations concerning Ulysses—Mercury despatched to Calypso, to bid her send Ulysses to Ithaca—Visit of Pallas, in the shape of Mentor, to Telemachus, advising him to repair to Pylos and Sparta in quest of his father, Ulysses—Revels of the suitors of Penelope—Phemius, the minstrel, and his song of the return of the Grecians—The suitors rebuked by Telemachus.
The Odyssey · Homer · c. 700 BC
- AdamStandardAmerican · male · the free engine0:23
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