The Odyssey
From kwharrison13.com · Anti-library
The Odyssey
| Author | Homer |
|---|---|
| Recommended | 4 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Homer’s epic of Odysseus’s ten-year return from Troy to Ithaca — the shipwrecks, the monsters, the disguises, and the reclaiming of a household that had given him up for dead. With the Iliad, the oldest surviving work of Western literature. |
The Odyssey
Where I heard about it
- University of Austin — assigned in Chaos and Civilization on its Fall 2025 reading list, November 2025, alongside Hesiod’s Theogony and Aeschylus’s Oresteia and Prometheus Bound — the Greek canon read as answers to one question: what does a civilization have to impose on chaos, and what does it cost. Full curriculum: UATX Fall Reading List.
- Li Lu — on Li Lu’s Recommended Book List, in the section on History of Western Civilization.
- Founders Classical Academy of Lewisville, Texas — ninth-grade summer reading on its list, posted by the Classic Learning Test in September 2026. Full sequence: Founders Classical Academy Reading List.
- @athenaeumbc — in a stack of ~35 old books photographed by Athenaeum Book Club (October 2026) under the line “One of the hidden benefits of reading old books is that they rescue you from the arrogance of the present.” The full stack is listed on One of the hidden benefits… (tweet).
About this edition
Composed in Greek hexameter in the oral tradition around the 8th century BC. It is cited by book and line rather than by page, because every printed edition is somebody’s translation.
Connections
- UATX Fall Reading List — the curriculum this is assigned in.
- Classics · Literature — the canon it opens.
- Founders Classical Academy Reading List — also assigned in the ninth-grade year at Founders Classical Academy of Lewisville, a classical school in Texas (Classic Learning Test, 22 September 2026).
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.