Odyssey

Homer's epic of Odysseus's return from Troy in twenty-four books; the hero tells his own wanderings (Cyclops, Circe, the dead, Sirens, Scylla) to the Phaeacians, then kills the suitors and is recognised by Penelope. Its eleventh book is the oldest Greek description of the dead, and its eighth the oldest account of the Wooden Horse. Read in Murray's Loeb translation.