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Epic · English

The Odyssey

Homer

Samuel Butler’s prose translation

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A voyage home. A bag of winds.

Read the complete Butler translation, then steer the boat in Homeward, a short game drawing on episodes from the poem.

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Samuel Butler’s prose translation, 1900, with Henry Festing Jones’s second preface, 1921. Project Gutenberg 1727.

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