The Odyssey is one of the world's greatest and best loved poems. It has inspired painters, poets, sculptors, and screenwriters; and now Barry Powell, one of the twenty-first century's leading Homeric scholars, has given us a powerful new translation.

The Odyssey is one of the world's greatest and best loved poems. It has inspired painters, poets, sculptors, and screenwriters; and now Barry Powell, one of the twenty-first century's leading Homeric scholars, has given us a powerful new translation.