The Odyssey: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Odyssey, credited to Homer, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Odyssey by Homer. (Translated by Samuel Butler.) Read in English by Peter Dann. Homer's "The Odyssey" forms the template of practically every adventure story that has been told in the West since it was composed nearly three thousand years ago: a bold and ingenious hero (in this case Ulysses, one of the principal warriors who fought at Troy) undertakes a long and perilous journey in the course of which he (or she) must confront many different dangers and temptations, both physical and psychological, before engaging in one final struggle that will prove decisive for the hero, and for all who depend upon the hero. Many episodes in this work have entered into our common lore — Ulysses' encounter with the one-eyed Cyclops, his brush with the deadly, beckoning Sirens and his daring pass between Scylla and Charybdis. Many other less familiar episodes in this justly famous tale are likely to strike a modern listener as rich, strange, or downright appalling, reminding us powerfully that the past is, indeed, "another country". - Summary by Peter Dann

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Odyssey
• Author credits: Homer
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 10:46:39

Catalogue topics

• epic poetry
• odysseus
• greek -- translations into english
• homer -- translations into english
• king of ithaca (mythological character)

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 00 - Prefaces to First and Second Editions — 16:49
2. 01 - Book 1 — 22:03
3. 02 - Book 2 — 22:59
4. 03 - Book 3 — 25:40
5. 04 - Book 4 — 42:52
6. 05 - Book 5 — 25:12
7. 06 - Book 6 — 17:56
8. 07 - Book 7 — 18:17
9. 08 - Book 8 — 30:34
10. 09 - Book 9 — 30:09
11. 10 - Book 10 — 29:32
12. 11 - Book 11 — 33:50
13. 12 - Book 12 — 25:08
14. 13 - Book 13 — 22:58
15. 14 - Book 14 — 27:58
16. 15 - Book 15 — 28:23
17. 16 - Book 16 — 23:23
18. 17 - Book 17 — 31:00
19. 18 - Book 18 — 22:13
20. 19 - Book 19 — 33:07
21. 20 - Book 20 — 21:48
22. 21 - Book 21 — 22:08
23. 22 - Book 22 — 23:36
24. 23 - Book 23 — 19:28

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