Odyssea

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Not macronized.

Odyssea is Homer’s Odyssey in Latin, all twenty-four books, in the prose translation printed beside the Greek in the Paris edition of Ambroise Firmin Didot (1838). The version is the old word-for-word Latin of Raffaele Maffei and Andreas Divus, revised throughout by Friedrich Dübner, who kept Homer’s order and his numbered lines. The Latin can be read with the Greek beside it or by itself, and one Greek epithet often becomes a hyphenated pair, as in cæsiis-oculis, the grey-eyed Athena.

Each book opens on a page of its own, and the etchings of Theodoor van Thulden, from the Ulysses Gallery at Fontainebleau, stand on right-hand pages facing the lines they show.

Virum dic mihi, Musa, versutum, qui valde multum erravit, postquam Trojæ sacram urbem evertit;
Tell me, Muse, of the resourceful man who wandered very far after he sacked the holy city of Troy.
Odyssea I.1-2

First edition, 2026. Paperback, 6 × 9 inches, 454 pages.