Poetry

Whatever you wantThe answer is inside of you if you take a look.Educate thyself, go find a worthwhile book.Motivate yourself to greater things,raise your head up high.Celebrate your life each day, look up towards the sky.Feel the warmth of the golden sun, soak up the vitalising rays.Seize the...

Home at last—but not yet revealed. In Books 17 and 18 of Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus reaches Ithaca in a beggar’s rags, tests the hearts of men, and steels himself for justice. He and the loyal swineherd Eumaeus enter the city; the goatherd Melanthius sneers; faithful Argos lifts his head...

From the glittering halls of the Phaeacians to the darkest enchanted forests, Odysseus recounts his most iconic trials in Books 9 and 10 of Homer’s Odyssey. In Samuel Butler’s lucid, fast-moving prose, performed with gripping clarity by William Johnston, hear the harrowing clash with...

Two of The Odyssey’s most unforgettable chapters come alive in this gripping performance of Samuel Butler’s lucid prose translation. In Book 11, Odysseus sails to the shadowed shores of Oceanus and summons the dead: he speaks with the seer Teiresias, embraces the shade of his mother Anticlea...

"The Complete Works of Homer" is a meticulously curated anthology that brings together the iconic masterpieces of ancient Greek literature – "The Iliad," "The Odyssey," and "The Homeric Hymns" – accompanied by captivating illustrations. Homer's epic narratives are renowned for their profound...