Homer · War at Troy and the Long Way Home
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A reader’s wiki for Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey: the heroes, gods, cities, and ideas of the two epics, with all forty-eight books summarized and quoted from A. T. Murray’s public-domain Loeb translation. Open reading, spoiler controls, bidirectional links, a relationship graph, and a timeline.
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Homer · War at Troy and the Long Way Home
The two great epics ascribed to Homer: the Iliad, which follows the wrath of Achilles in the ten…
Iliad
Fifty-one days in the tenth year of the Trojan War
Twenty-four books on the wrath of Achilles. A quarrel over a captive woman divides the Achaean c…
Odyssey
Ten years of wandering and the return home
Twenty-four books on Odysseus’ long way home from Troy. While suitors consume his house and pres…
Achilles
The greatest Achaean warrior · hero of the Iliad
Son of Peleus and the sea-nymph Thetis, and the strongest fighter on the Achaean side. His wrath…
Odysseus
King of Ithaca · hero of the Odyssey
King of Ithaca, husband of Penelope, father of Telemachus, and the most resourceful of the Achae…
Hector
Trojan commander · defender of Troy and its household
Son of Priam and Hecuba, husband of Andromache, father of Astyanax, and the commander of the Tro…
Athena
Goddess of wisdom and war · patron of Odysseus and Achilles
Daughter of Zeus and a goddess of war, craft, and counsel. In the Iliad she is the Achaeans’ mos…
Zeus
King of the Olympian gods · guarantor of fate and hospitalit…
The king of the gods, lord of the sky, thunder, and justice. He is not a simple partisan: in the…
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The Iliad and the Odyssey together: the glory of war and the difficulty of coming home.
The wrath of Achilles, the death of Patroclus, and the funeral of Hector.
Odysseus survives monsters and gods, reaches Ithaca, and takes back his house and his wife.
The data model already supports works, timelines, and cross-work relations.
This is an unofficial reader’s wiki, not a critical edition. The English quotations are from A. T. Murray’s Loeb Classical Library translation (Iliad 1924–25; Odyssey 1919), which is in the public domain, as digitized by the Perseus Digital Library under CC BY-SA 4.0. Book summaries, wiki articles, and editorial notes are original work by the editors of this site. This site is not affiliated with the Perseus Project or the Loeb Classical Library.