book summaries

• book one - athene visits telemachus
• book two - the debate in ithaca
• book three - telemachus with nestor
• book four - menelaus and helen
• book five - calypso
• book six - nausicaa
• book seven - the palace of alcinous
• book eight - the phaeacian games
• book nine - the cyclops
• book ten - circe
• book eleven - the book of the dead
• book twelve - scylla and charybdis
• book thirteen - odysseus lands on ithaca
• book fourteen - in eumaeus' hut
• book fifteen - telemachus returns
• book sixteen - odysseus meets his son
• book seventeen - odysseus goes to the town
• book eighteen - the beggar in the palace
• book nineteen - eurycleia recognises odysseus
• book twenty - prelude to the crisis
• book twenty-one - the great bow
• book twenty-two - the battle in the hall
• book twenty-three - odysseus and penelope
• book twenty-four - the feud is ended
• the telemachy is books 1-4
• the adventure books are 5-12