The Odyssey by Homer

The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work traditionally ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon. Indeed it is the second—the Iliad being the first—extant work of Western literature. It was probably composed near the end of the eighth century BC, somewhere in Ionia, the Greek-speaking coastal region of what is now Turkey. The poem mainly centers on the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses, as he was known in Roman myths) and his long journey home following the fall of Troy. It takes Odysseus ten years to reach Ithaca after the ten-year Trojan War. In his absence, it is assumed he has died, and his wife Penelope and son Telemachus must deal with a group of unruly suitors, the Mnesteres or Proci, competing for Penelope's hand in marriage.

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	Name	Binding	Sales Rank	Lowest New	Lowest Used	Published
	The Odyssey	Paperback	3182221		$2.19
	THE ODYSSEY.	Paperback	3321319		$19.49
	The Odyssey of Homer	Paperback	212609	$12.74	$0.01	1999
	Odyssey (Translated & Annotated)	Kindle Edition	66113	$10.46		2010
	Odyssey	Audio CD	312291	$27.37	$27.36	2006
	The Odyssey, Books VI-VIII (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)	Paperback	1400969	$32.99	$30.54	2008
	The Odyssey	Paperback	506577	$15.20		2014
	The Odyssey	Kindle Edition	209739			2019
	The Odyssey: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation)	Paperback	528919	$8.24	$8.32	2014
	The Odyssey: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation)	Kindle Edition	674958	$8.89		2013
	The Odyssey Abridged	Perfect Paperback	70032	$14.99	$9.49	2008
	Odyssey-abridged	Kindle Edition	307826			2010
	The Odyssey Abridged (hard cover)	Hardcover	2568830	$18.95		2012
	The Odyssey: By Homer - Illustrated	Kindle Edition	255719			2016
	The Odyssey	Paperback	331297	$20.83	$13.42	2006
	The Odyssey	Paperback	469970	$16.10	$17.00	2014
	The Odyssey	Kindle Edition	301048	$0.99		2014
	The Odyssey	Kindle Edition	877437			2005
	The Odyssey	Kindle Edition	580948			2014
	Odyssey	Kindle Edition	222447			2010
	The Odyssey	Hardcover	101359	$18.80	$10.00	2014
	The Odyssey (Penguin Clothbound Classics)	Hardcover	44791	$25.00	$41.33	2010
	The Odyssey	Mass Market Paperback	13704506	$3.50	$2.00
	The Odyssey of Homer	Hardcover	453771	$48.53	$2.81
	The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation	Hardcover	634318		$24.05	1998
	The Odyssey	Paperback	266590	$26.96	$5.85	2002
	The Odyssey	Kindle Edition	166095	$3.99		2014
	Odyssey (Mentor Books)	Paperback	2449738		$1.44
	The Odyssey	Audible Audio Edition	1318	$24.47		1999
	The Odyssey (Signet Classics)	Mass Market Paperback	41171	$2.49	$0.01	2007
	Odyssey	Hardcover	2894308	$632.90	$275.00	1999
	The Odyssey	Audible Audio Edition	28668	$40.95		2010
	The Odyssey	Paperback	361702	$10.84		2015
	The Odyssey	Hardcover	1017636	$20.27	$3.43	1996
	The Odyssey (Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection)	Kindle Edition	745062			2016
	The Odyssey	Paperback	1008937	$7.80	$1.05	2012
	The Odyssey (Annotated)	Kindle Edition	30040	$0.99		2013
	Homer: Odyssey Books XIII and XIV (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)	Paperback	692804	$32.99	$45.91	2014
	The Odyssey	Hardcover	68424	$15.41	$10.69	2010
	The Odyssey	Kindle Edition	288630	$1.99		2014
	The Odyssey	Paperback	256629		$7.00	1997
	The Odyssey: + 7 Free Bonus works: The Iliad Of Homer, Paradise Lost, The Golden Ass, Oedipus The King, Oedipus At Colonus, Antigone, The Aeneid	Kindle Edition	12974			2015
	The Odyssey	Paperback	18141	$6.96	$6.61	2010
	The Iliad & The Odyssey	Paperback	484783	$9.90		2021
	The Iliad And The Odyssey	Kindle Edition	60861			2016
	The Odyssey	Paperback	803682	$13.34		2016
	The Odyssey	Audible Audio Edition	13621	$14.95		2006
	The Odyssey	Hardcover	6380632	$999.11	$499.93
	The Odyssey of Homer (Large Print)	Paperback	358019	$15.99		2013
	The Odyssey	MP3 CD	1525862	$4.65	$10.46	2015
	The Odyssey	Audio CD	1531619	$28.10	$25.61	2007
	The Odyssey (Oxford World's Classics)	Paperback	579361	$4.00	$9.12	2018
	The Odyssey	Paperback	1012885	$17.88	$0.31	2005
	The Odyssey: By Homer & Illustrated (An Audiobook Free!)	Paperback	684126	$6.57		2016
	The Odyssey	Paperback	809076	$3.36	$0.01	1988
	The Odyssey	Paperback	357586	$16.77	$12.77	2013
	The Odyssey	Hardcover	1218684	$17.99	$22.45	2016
	The Odyssey	Paperback	383594	$24.09	$13.00	2014
	The Odyssey	Paperback	4459003	$14.99	$21.54	2016
	The Odyssey	Audio CD	1260016	$11.72	$15.51	2007
	The Odyssey: Color Illustrated, Formatted for E-Readers (Unabridged Version)	Kindle Edition	93539			2015
	The Odyssey	Paperback	2472728	$9.00	$7.89	2016
	The Odyssey (Vintage classics)	Paperback	61400	$6.99	$0.01	1990
	The Odyssey of Homer. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald.	Hardcover	5267110		$3.00
	The Odyssey (Wordsworth Classics)	Paperback	48790	$0.99	$0.37	2002
	The Odyssey (Oxford World's Classics)	Hardcover	493305	$11.25	$12.79	2017
	The Odyssey	Kindle Edition	243423			2016
	The Odyssey (Oxford Illustrated Classics Series)	Paperback	1950897	$9.37	$0.55	1999
	Odyssey	Audio CD	2782668	$22.19		2016
	The Odyssey: Filibooks Classics (Illustrated)	Kindle Edition	52566			2015
	The Odyssey of Homer	Paperback	855021	$16.77	$0.01
	The Odyssey	Paperback	606445	$3.56	$3.25	2011
	The Odyssey (Graphic Classics)	Hardcover	1235398	$10.54	$3.93	2009
	The Odyssey	Hardcover	663797	$17.99		2016
	Odyssey	Audible Audio Edition	17851	$20.20		2016
	The Odyssey	Paperback	942859	$7.95	$0.71	2012
	The Odyssey	Paperback	1389891	$22.63	$0.99	2012
	The Odyssey of Homer	Paperback	1202553	$9.87	$0.01	2007
	The Odyssey	Hardcover	708316	$103.69	$19.49
	The Odyssey	Paperback	1132909	$2,420.43	$0.69	1997
	The Odyssey (Signet Classics)	Kindle Edition	513889			2015
	The Odyssey	Mass Market Paperback	3469554	$49.75	$0.01
	The Odyssey	Paperback	2345455	$32.00	$0.07	2009
	Odyssey: Odisseia (Greek Edition)	Paperback	272226	$29.00		2009
	The Odyssey (Oxford World's Classics)	Paperback	1413718	$6.99	$1.17	2008
	The Odyssey (Dover Thrift Editions)	Paperback	72319	$0.01	$0.01	1998
	The Odyssey (Dover Thrift Editions)	Kindle Edition	77345	$0.99		2012
	The Odyssey	Audio CD	2281510		$9.00
	The Odyssey (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)	Hardcover	82747	$13.00	$3.80	1992
	The Odyssey (Barnes & Noble Flexibound Editions)	Hardcover	966218	$12.39		2017
	The Odyssey	Kindle Edition	762673			2016
	The Odyssey of Homer (Full Cast Audio Theater Adaptation)	Audio CD	685040	$29.95	$15.00	2012
	The Odyssey of Homer	Paperback	723010	$11.00		2012
	The Odyssey of Homer	Hardcover	2488907	$6.95	$5.67
	The Odyssey of Homer (Harper Torchbooks)	Paperback	4603018	$35.25	$2.97
	The Odyssey	Paperback	1028	$10.15	$1.49	1999
	The Odyssey	Kindle Edition	1691			2017
	The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation	Audio CD	616882	$21.39	$9.95	2014
	The Odyssey: By Homer - Illustrated And Unabridged (FREE AUDIOBOOK INCLUDED)	Kindle Edition	291949			2016
	The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)	Paperback	44880	$5.66	$1.18	2003
	The Odyssey (Classics Illustrated)	Paperback	434322	$9.95		2018
	The Odyssey	Paperback	87487	$8.99		2017
	The Odyssey--Butler Translation, Large-Print Edition	Paperback	242378	$17.95	$13.33	2006
	The Odyssey	Audio CD	4239915	$87.00	$5.00
	The Essential Odyssey (Hackett Classics)	Kindle Edition	80878			2012
	Classic Starts™: The Odyssey (Classic Starts™ Series)	Kindle Edition	923492			2011
	Classic Starts™: The Odyssey (Classic Starts™ Series)	Hardcover	39677	$4.76	$1.15	2011
	The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation	Paperback	289902	$8.27	$2.48	1998
	The Odyssey: A New Translation by Peter Green	Hardcover	504317	$29.95		2018
	The Odyssey (Norton Critical Editions)	Paperback	443600	$14.44	$3.79	1993
	The Odyssey - Literary Touchstone edition	Paperback	372948	$4.99	$0.25	2006
	The Iliad and The Odyssey Boxed Set	Hardcover	322442	$150.00	$21.56	1996
	Colour Classics Odyssey (Penguin Classics)	Paperback	4549025		$4.00	2006
	The Odyssey	Hardcover	102	$25.44		2017
	The Odyssey SparkNotes Literature Guide (SparkNotes Literature Guide Series)	Paperback	24483	$1.32	$0.01	2014
	The Odyssey (Signet Classics)	Mass Market Paperback	28791	$3.39	$1.99	2015
	The Odyssey	Paperback	7713	$12.84	$7.46	2018
	The Odyssey--Butler Translation	Paperback	13240465	$17.95	$29.57	2007
	The Odyssey (Graphic Classics)	Paperback	81960	$6.34	$1.55	2009
	[(The Odyssey translated by E.V.Rieu)] [ By (author) Homer, Translated by E.V. Rieu, Revised by Dominic Rieu, Introduction by Peter Jones ] [January, 2003]	Paperback	638107	$14.93	$5.84	2003
	The Usborne Illustrated Odyssey (Illustrated Originals)	Hardcover	127979	$17.05	$17.05	2016
	The Iliad & The Odyssey	Paperback	4316994	$10.95	$2.33	2006
	The Odyssey: A New Verse Translation	Paperback	2188982	$18.34	$1.89	1968
	The Odyssey: Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)	Hardcover	3229108		$3.00
	The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)	Kindle Edition	9370	$10.99		1997
	The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)	Paperback	23661	$6.22	$1.34	2006
	The Odyssey	Audio CD	504191	$19.31	$9.98	2005
	The Odyssey of Homer	Kindle Edition	66192	$9.78		2009
	The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation	Audible Audio Edition	3056	$23.95		2014
	The Odyssey: A New Translation by Peter Green	Paperback	137746	$14.80	$6.13	2019
	HOMER ODYSSEY BOOKS XVII–XVIII (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)	Paperback	1278869	$36.64	$31.83	2010
	The Iliad & The Odyssey: Large Print	Paperback	1597069	$18.50		2020
	The Odyssey	Paperback	2008047	$13.50	$13.44	2003
	The Odyssey (The Norton Library)	Paperback	323784	$10.75	$12.61	2020
	The Iliad And Odyssey	Hardcover	1611213	$26.99	$26.58	2018
	The Odyssey	Paperback	2709125	$12.99		2018
	The Odyssey (Annotated)	Paperback	5926736	$8.82	$4.43	2020
	World Classics Library: Homer: The Illiad and The Odyssey (Arcturus World Classics Library)	Hardcover	1707926	$19.99		2021
	Homer: Odyssey Books 19 & 20 (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)	Paperback	2062077	$37.11	$27.77	2008
	The Odyssey of Homer	Paperback	51958	$6.98	$2.05	2007
	The Odyssey	Paperback	49154	$9.29	$0.57	1998
	The Odyssey	Hardcover	99265	$16.43	$1.62
	The Odyssey: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation)	Hardcover	100302	$20.43	$14.99	2013
	The Odyssey	Audio CD	875724	$15.03	$13.00	2000
	The Odyssey (Epics)	Audio CD	4289370	$420.21	$15.40	2004
	The Odyssey - Classic Illustrated Edition	Kindle Edition	14368			2014
	The Odyssey (Annotated, Illustrated)	Kindle Edition	340899			2016
	The Odyssey (the Samuel Butler Prose Translation)	Paperback	44750	$3.96	$1.99	2009
	The Odyssey (The Samuel Butler Prose Translation)	Kindle Edition	602617			2009
	The Odyssey (Puffin Classics)	Paperback	61460	$1.47	$0.01	1997
	The Odyssey (Barnes & Noble Classics)	Paperback	38880	$1.50	$0.15	2003
	The Odyssey (Barnes & Noble Classics)	Hardcover	1258731	$3.40	$0.01	2004
	The Odyssey	Paperback	532811	$7.00		2017
	The Essential Odyssey (Hackett Classics)	Paperback	127243	$10.13	$6.49	2007