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The Odyssey, Opus 4.8 Translation

Homer, translated from the Greek by an AI

This is a complete translation of Homer's Odyssey — all 24 books, 12,107 lines — made by Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 from the original ancient Greek (the Perseus Digital Library text, ed. Murray). The model translated it line for line, about forty lines per request, working from a fixed translator's brief, a glossary of recurring epithets, a running synopsis, and the tail of its own previous translation for continuity of voice.

The Greek appears on the left, the translation on the right.

  1. 1Athena Visits Ithaca
  2. 2The Assembly and the Voyage
  3. 3Nestor at Pylos
  4. 4Menelaus and Helen at Sparta
  5. 5Calypso's Island and the Raft
  6. 6Nausicaa
  7. 7The Palace of Alcinous
  8. 8The Phaeacian Games
  9. 9The Cyclops
  10. 10Aeolus, the Laestrygonians, and Circe
  11. 11The Land of the Dead
  12. 12The Sirens, Scylla, and the Cattle of the Sun
  13. 13Return to Ithaca
  14. 14The Loyal Swineherd
  15. 15Telemachus Comes Home
  16. 16Father and Son
  17. 17The Beggar at the Palace
  18. 18The Fight with Irus
  19. 19Penelope and the Scar
  20. 20Portents Before the Slaughter
  21. 21The Contest of the Bow
  22. 22The Death of the Suitors
  23. 23The Marriage Bed
  24. 24Peace in Ithaca