Essentially a freestanding sequel to The Iliad, Homer's Odyssey is much more, a swashbuckling epic that has deeply influenced writers and artists for 2700 years. Presented in Robert Fitzgerald's timeless 1965 translation, here is the story of how the Greek Odysseus attempts to return home after the war, but needs all of his legendary cunning and valor to contend with a cyclops, the Sirens, the monstrous Scylla, the whirlpool Charybdis, and the sorceress Circe, plus a houseful of suitors eager to marry his wife.