The Odyssey: Deluxe Edition Featuring Historical Commentary and Original Hand-Drawn Illustrations (Illustrated)

The Odyssey

• Samuel Butler's 1900 prose translation
• All deity names restored to original Greek forms
• 24 hand-drawn illustrations by renowned Italian comic book artist Michela Da Sacco
• Comprehensive historical introduction with academic citations
• Further Reading section: translations, retellings, and critical studies

After ten years fighting at Troy, Odysseus wants nothing more than to return home to Ithaca. But the gods have other plans. Trapped on Calypso's island, shipwrecked by Poseidon, tempted by Circe and the Sirens, his journey becomes a twenty-year ordeal of survival and cunning. Meanwhile, 108 suitors occupy his palace, devouring his wealth and pressuring his wife Penelope to choose a new husband. When Odysseus finally reaches Ithaca, he arrives as a beggar in his own home, unrecognized and outnumbered. What follows is an unforgettable tale of patience, violence, and reclamation—one man's fight to restore everything he lost. Homer's masterpiece has endured 2,700 years because the story still works—Odysseus's struggle to get home, to reclaim what was taken, to be recognized for who he is, remains as gripping now as it was in ancient Greece.