Epic · English
The Odyssey
Samuel Butler’s prose translation
Prepared by New readingFounding edition
Inside this reader
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.
Edition, sources & reuse
Samuel Butler’s prose translation, 1900, with Henry Festing Jones’s second preface, 1921. Project Gutenberg 1727.
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