Discover the original Greek and Norse myths, the great epics, sagas, and legends at the foundation of Western storytelling. Find Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, the Poetic and Prose Eddas, and the Icelandic sagas in faithful editions drawn from the source texts: the ancient, archetypal tales of heroes, gods, and monsters, of voyage and quest, of fate, glory, and ruin.
These are the foundational stories from which so much of later myth and legend descends. Whether you have come to classical mythology through a lifetime of reading or through its modern retellings, this is the wellspring itself: the original epics of Greek and Norse legend, as they were first told.
Among the oldest adventure stories still told, Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ follows Odysseus, hero-king of Ithaca, through ten years of trial on his long voyage home from the Trojan War. Rendered into flowing English prose by the novelist Samuel Butler, this celebrated translation carries the poem’s influence to modern readers beyond the verse tradition.
