Odyssee

Many people know the name Odysseus, yet hardly anyone knows the text that tells of his wanderings. The epic was composed in antiquity and is attributed to Homer.

At its center stands King Odysseus of Ithaca, who wants to return home after the war for Troy. On the way he loses companions, and the journey also takes him to the island of the Phaeacians.

The work comprises 24 songs, in which flashbacks, parallel plots and shifting narrators alternate. Readers follow the homecoming from several angles, and the question of whether the king arrives remains gripping until the end.