The Odyssey

A TELEGRAPH BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2025

A magnificent new translation of the Odyssey by best-selling author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn

'This may be the best translation of The Odyssey yet. Daniel Mendelsohn's rendering of Homer's text is both highly readable and faithful to the original metre. It's impressive, thrilling stuff... a sonorous new translation' - Edith Hall, The Telegraph

With his Odyssey, best-selling author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn has created a ...