Homer The Odyssey: A Prose TranslationThe Odyssey is an ancient Greek epic about the challenges and hardships Odysseus faces in his rambling ten year journey homeward after the Trojan War and in the days following his arrival on the island of Ithaka, his homeland. Depicting his own and others' social displacement after the war, and describing his successive challenges against human, natural and supernatural adversaries, the epic dramatizes his problematic process of healing from the