Odyssea

Macronized. Every long vowel in the Latin is marked.

Odyssēa contains all twenty-four books of Homer’s Odyssey in Latin. The version is the old word-for-word Latin of Raffaele Maffei and Andreas Divus, revised throughout by Friedrich Dübner. Long vowels are marked and the spelling is classical. The book also includes the etchings of Theodoor van Thulden.

It is great for intermediate to advanced Latin readers who want more practice reading a long, familiar story.

Virum dīc mihi, Mūsa, versūtum, quī valdē multum errāvit, postquam Troiae sacram urbem ēvertit;
Tell me, Muse, of the resourceful man who wandered very far after he sacked the holy city of Troy.
Odyssēa I.1-2

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

The Latin text follows the Didot edition of 1838, Latin by J. F. Dübner: the translation printed beside the Greek in Homeri Carmina et Cycli Epici Reliquiae, Graece et Latine, cum Indice Nominum et Rerum, pars secunda: Odyssea (Paris: Ambroise Firmin Didot, 1838), from a digital transcription by Carolus Raeticus (2016), checked against the printed page. The translation is Johann Friedrich Dübner’s revision of the word-for-word Latin of Raffaele Maffei of Volterra and Andreas Divus (1537), made for the Didot Homer. In this edition long vowels are marked and the spelling is made classical. The edition is listed on our Sources page, with a link to a scan of the original.