Homer's Odyssey

The Odyssey recounts the adventures of Odysseus on his way home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.

Although originally written in heroic verse, it has been called the first novel because of its exciting use of narrative and the effective use of flashbacks to heighten the dramatic action. While The Iliad is a collection of mythical material that grew up about an event that seems actually to have occurred toward the end of the Mycenean era, the Odyssey is largely a collection of folk tales, ma…