The Odyssey By Homer

Homer's Odyssey is the ancient Greek tale of Odysseus and his eventful voyage home after the Trojan War . The hero and his crew escape a man - eating Cyclops and , having angered the sea - god Poseidon , are then beset by storms and blown to an island where a witch transforms the sailors into pigs . With his fleet destroyed , Odysseus is held captive for seven years by the nymph Calypso , who offers him immortality if he will stay with her . But the desire to return to his loving wife , Penelope , is too strong and Odysseus determines to reach his home at Ithaca .
 His many adventures are the subject of this famous prose translation by T.E. Lawrence , which was the first to be aimed at a general readership .