The Odyssey

Contents

• Prefaces

• Book I.
  The Gods in Council -- Miverva's Visit to Ithaca -- The Challenge from Telemachus to the Suitors.
• Book II.
  Assembly Of The People Of Ithaca -- Speeches Of Telemachus And Of The Suitors -- Telemachus Makes His Preparations And Starts For Pylos With Minerva Disguised As Mentor.
• Book III.
  Telemachus Visits Nestor at Pylos.
• Book IV.
  The Visit to King Menelaus, Who Tells His Story -- Meanwhile The Suitors In Ithaca Plot Against Telemachus.
• Book V.
  Calypso -- Ulysses Reaches Scheria On A Raft.
• Book VI.
  The Meeting between Nausicaa and Ulysses.
• Book VII.
  Reception of Ulysses at the Palace Of King Alcinous.
• Book VIII.
  Banquet in the House of Alcinous -- The Games.
• Book IX.
  Ulysses Declares Himself and Begins His Story -- The Cicons, Lotophagi, and Cyclopes.
• Book X.
  Aeolus, the Laestrygones, Circe.
• Book XI.
  The Visit to the Dead.
• Book XII.
  The Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, the Cattle of the Sun.
• Book XIII.
  Ulysses Leaves Scheria and Returns to Ithaca.
• Book XIV.
  Ulysses In The Hut With Eumaeus.
• Book XV.
  Minerva Summons Telemachus From Lacedaemon -- He Meets With Theoclymenus At Pylos And Brings Him To Ithaca -- On Landing He Goes To The Hut Of Eumaeus.
• Book XVI.
  Ulysses Reveals Himself To Telemachus.
• Book XVII.
  Telemachus And His Mother Meet -- Ulysses And Eumaeus Come Down To The Town, And Ulysses Is Insulted By Melanthius -- He Is Recognized By The Dog Argos -- He Is Insulted And Presently Struck By Antinous With A Stool -- Penelope Desires That He Shall Be Sent To Her.
• Book XVIII.
  The Fight With Irus -- Ulysses Warns Amphinomus -- Penelope Gets Presents From The Suitors -- The Braziers -- Ulysses Rebukes Eurymachus.
• Book XIX.
  Telemachus And Ulysses Remove The Armor -- Ulysses Interviews Penelope -- Euryclea Washes His Feet And Recognizes The Scar On His Leg -- Penelope Tells Her Dream To Ulysses.
• Book XX.
  Ulysses Cannot Sleep -- Penelope's Prayer To Diana -- The Two Signs From Heaven -- Eumaeus And Philoetius Arrive -- The Suitors Dine -- Ctesippus Throws An Ox's Foot At Ulysses -- Theoclymenus Foretells Disaster And Leaves The House.
• Book XXI.
  The Trial Of The Axes, During Which Ulysses Reveals Himself To Eumaeus And Philoetius.
• Book XXII.
  The Killing Of The Suitors -- The Maids Who Have Misconducted Themselves Are Made To Cleanse The Cloisters And Are Then Hanged.
• Book XXIII.
  Penelope Eventually Recognizes Her Husband -- Early In The Morning Ulysses, Telemachus, Eumaeus, And Philoetius Leave The Town.
• Book XXIV.
  The Ghosts Of The Suitors In Hades -- Ulysses And His Men Go To The House Of Laertes -- The People Of Ithaca Come Out To Attack Ulysses, But Minerva Concludes A Peace.

• Footnotes