The Odyssey
by Homer · -800
Classics · ranked #69 in category
Odysseus spends ten years trying to reach home after the fall of Troy, battling the Cyclops, the Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, Circe and the Phaeacians, while his wife Penelope holds off suitors in Ithaca and his son Telemachus comes of age. The foundational Western epic of homecoming, adventure and the enduring pull of the domestic.
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