The Shelves · Epic and hexameter poetry
Odyssey
Ὀδύσσεια
Known · Attestedin Alexandria?Conjecturedvery likely class
I · The entry, in his form
In the table of Epic and hexameter poetry
Conjecturedvery likely class8th century BCE. The poet to whom the Greeks gave the Iliad and the Odyssey. Whether one poet composed them, and when, is still argued; the century given is a convention.
Odyssey
Ὀδύσσεια
Opening words
Ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, Μοῦσα, πολύτροπον
Tell me, Muse, of the man of many turns
Length: 12,110 lines
Above, his entry form, filled from what we know. Below, ours.
II · Does it survive? Where to read it
Survives whole
Was it in Alexandria?
Known · AttestedEdited in Alexandria.
In the cupboard: edited, classified or commented on by the Library's scholars.
Read it today
- Greek with English (Scaife Viewer) · original and translation · link checked 31 Oct 2026
- Murray, Odyssey I (public-domain Loeb scan, PDF) · a translation · link checked 31 Oct 2026
III · In the show
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IV · Sources and the living entry
Ancient references
- Scholia to Odyssey 23.296
Modern scholarship (2)
- R. Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship from the Beginnings to the End of the Hellenistic Age (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968)
- L. D. Reynolds and N. G. Wilson, Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature, 4th ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
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