Homer


The Odyssey
The Iliad
The Iliad / The Odyssey
Homeric Hymns
Why Homer Matters
Circe and the Cyclops
The Song of Achilles
The World of Odysseus
War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad
The Singer of Tales
The Cambridge Companion to Homer (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad
Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad
Iliad, Books 1–12 (Loeb Classical Library, #170)
Circe
Paradise Lost by John MiltonThe Iliad by HomerThe Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriThe Prelude by William Wordsworth
Long Poems
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The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. LewisInferno by Dante AlighieriThe Aeneid by VirgilThe Iliad by HomerThe Odyssey by Homer
The Iliad Tradition
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Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block
Odyssey Retellings
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Homer
We did not get on much further, for in another moment we were caught by a terrific squall from the West that snapped the forestays of the mast so that it fell aft, while all the ship’s gear tumbled about at the bottom of the vessel. The mast fell upon the head of the helmsman in the ship’s stern, so that the bones of his head were crushed to pieces, and he fell overboard as though he were diving, with no more life left in him. “Then Jove let fly with his thunderbolts, and the ship went round and ...more
Homer, The Odyssey

Homer
And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself, Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house. ...more
Homer, The Iliad

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