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Homer's Odyssey

An illustrated retelling
Brief Description
Homer’s Odyssey is one of the world’s oldest and most famous works of literature. It has enthralled readers for almost three thousand years with its tales of gods and monsters, warriors and kings, but also of family, faith, and the universal longing for home. This stunning... Read More
Format: Hardback
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Homer’s Odyssey is one of the world’s oldest and most famous works of literature. It has enthralled readers for almost three thousand years with its tales of gods and monsters, warriors and kings, but also of family, faith, and the universal longing for home. This stunning new edition of Homer’s epic features a brand new retelling by celebrated classicist Barry Powell, who has studied, written about, and lectured on Homer for over three decades. Barry’s retelling is accompanied by sixty newly commissioned artworks, bringing the iconic scenes and characters to life, from the brutish Polyphemus, to the monstrous Scylla and Charybdis, mysterious Circe, faithful Penelope, and Odysseus himself.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781917226394

Publisher: UniPress Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 30 April 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: UniPress Books

Illustration: Full colour throughout: over 60 illustrations

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Joanna Lisoweic

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 180.0mm

Height: 230.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 256

About the Author

Barry B. Powell is the Halls-Bascom Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught for thirty-four years. He has translated the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid for Oxford University Press. He has published a translation of the poems of Hesiod. He has contributed to classical journals. He has also written short fiction (The House of Odysseus and Other Short Fictions), novels (Ramses in Nighttown, A Land of Slaves, The Berkeley Plan, Return to California), poetry (Rooms Containing Falcons), and a screenplay (Helen of Troy).

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