A listening edition
Hear the journey
line by line.
Homer’s Odyssey, newly rendered in an English analogue of dactylic hexameter: twenty-four books, one English verse for every Greek verse.
— u u — u u
— u u — u u
— u u — x
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BOOK 01 / 24
A Council of the Gods
Athena begins the work of bringing Odysseus home.
444 verses · English hexameter0:00—:—
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Continuous listening
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How to listen
Not a translation to skim,
but a measure to hear.
Each line has six falling beats. The clean reading text lets the verse move naturally; the companion performance text preserves the stresses, feet, and pronunciation cues behind it.
The complete poem