I started re-reading Fitzgerald’s translation of The Odyssey recently. As I was trolling around Goodreads I came across this sorta cute comment from a young reader…
I ended up loving this book once it was finished. I gave it 4 stars only because it was quite difficult to read. It read like a poem and then like the Bible with the “who knows who and who is related to whom”.
The story takes place after the Trojan War. Odysseus has been captured and missing for many years. Odysseus’s wife is in mourning and refuses to marry another man. In the meantime, Odysseus’s son, Telemarkhos, believes that his father is alive and sets out to find him.
I’m enjoying reading it too.