Odysseus' Route Map
The Ten-Year Journey — Peter Struck, U. of Pennsylvania
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Ancient Map
Odysseus' Route Map
The Ten-Year Journey — Peter Struck, U. of Pennsylvania
Chart the full arc of Odysseus's odyssey across the Mediterranean — from the smouldering ruins of Troy through the lands of the Cyclopes, Circe, and Calypso, to the rocky shores of Ithaca.
Translation
Fagles Translation
Robert Fagles — Penguin Classics, 1996
Lauded for its visceral, muscular verse, Fagles's translation captures the Odyssey's epic energy and oral urgency. The preferred text of most contemporary classrooms and the gold standard of modern translation.
Translation
Lattimore Translation
Richmond Lattimore — Harper Perennial, 1967
Lattimore's rendering preserves the Homeric hexameter rhythm in English, offering a scholarly fidelity to the original Greek. Essential for comparative analysis of the Demodocus episodes in Book 8.
Scroll
Scheria — Land of the Phaeacians
Commentary on Books 6–8
A deep-reading of the Phaeacian episode as Homer's meditation on art, civilization, and the transformative power of song. Explores why Demodocus's blindness mirrors the tradition of the poet himself.
Visual Guide
Greek Pottery & Narrative Art
Geometric to Classical Period
An illustrated guide to reading narrative scenes on Greek pottery — from Geometric mourning figures to red-figure depictions of Odysseus's encounters. Essential context for the Amphora collection.