How you explore The Odyssey on Literah
The cast, the places, the objects, the plot, and the author’s own words — each one a card in a feed you scroll on your phone. One at a time, at your pace, in any order you like.
- Built for your phone. Literah is designed for mobile, so your worlds travel with you. On a laptop it shows a QR code to carry the world to your phone.
- A feed, not a wall of text. 42 characters, 27 places, 17 objects and 7 plot beats, each its own card with its own illustration.
- The author’s own words. 49 passages of The Odyssey sit in the feed verbatim, exactly as Homer wrote them, each with a short reading of what it is doing. The map is ours; the prose is always the book’s.
- The same scroll, a better world. The gesture you already give away to feeds, spent on Homer instead.
The Odyssey feed, as it appears in your mobile
The plot of The Odyssey
The story beat by beat, as Literah maps it.
- Telemachus and the Suitors
- The Captive and the Shipwreck
- The Cyclops and Circe
- The Land of the Dead
- The Sea-Perils
- The Return to Ithaca
- The Bow and the Reckoning
The author's pen in The Odyssey
The passages themselves, Homer's own words, as Literah maps it.
- Odysseus and His Lost Mench. 1
- Minerva Pleads For Ulyssesch. 1
- Telemachus Welcomes the Strangerch. 1
- Nothing But Dismaych. 1
- Penelope Stops the Songch. 1
- Telemachus Claims the Bowch. 1
- Telemachus States His Grievancech. 2
- Penelope's Web Unraveledch. 2
- Telemachus Prays by the Seach. 2
- Telemachus Swears the Nurse to Secrecych. 2
- Telemachus Sets Sailch. 2
- Telemachus Seeks News Of Ulyssesch. 3
- Nestor Praises Odysseusch. 3
- Helen Recognizes Telemachusch. 4
- Odysseus Detained and Menelaus Rewardedch. 4
- Telemachus Claims His Housech. 4
- Ulysses on the Shorech. 5
- Calypso Offers Immortalitych. 5
- Nothing But Homech. 5
- The Storm and Pitiable Endch. 5
The characters of The Odyssey
Who is who, as Literah maps it.
- Ulyssesmajor
- Penelopemajor
- Telemachusmajor
- Minervamajor
- Neptunemajor
- Penelope’s Suitorsmajor
- Antinoussupporting
- Eurymachussupporting
- Eumaeussupporting
- Eurycleasupporting
- Laertessupporting
- Calypsosupporting
- Circesupporting
- Polyphemussupporting
- Nausicaasupporting
- Alcinoussupporting
The locations in The Odyssey
Where it happens, as Literah maps it.
- Ithacaisland kingdom
- Ulysses’s Houseroyal household
- The Great Hallhall
- Penelope’s Upper Roomchamber
- The Storeroom and Armorystoreroom
- The Marriage Chamberbedchamber
- Eumaeus’s Hutswineherd’s hut
- Laertes’s Orchardorchard
- Ogygiaisland
- The Open Seasea
- Scheria / Phaeaciaisland kingdom
- The Phaeacian Courtroyal court
- Nausicaa’s Riverbankriverbank
- The Cyclops’ Cavecave
The core concepts in The Odyssey
What the book keeps returning to, as Literah maps it.
- Home is recognized, not merely reached
- Intelligence survives where force cannot
- Hospitality is the moral test of civilization
- Fidelity is active, strategic endurance
- Sons must become worthy of inherited names
- The household is political
- Memory is proof, wound, and burden
- Divine help does not erase human testing
- Temptation often looks like relief
The objects of note in The Odyssey
The things that carry meaning, as Literah maps it.
- Ulysses’s Bow
- The Twelve Axes
- The Marriage Bed
- Ulysses’s Scar
- Penelope’s Loom
- The Cattle of the Sun
- Ulysses’s Raft
- The Bag of Winds
- Wine Given to Polyphemus
- The Sharpened Stake
- Wax and Mast
- Beggar’s Rags
- Armor Removed from the Hall
- The Oar from Tiresias’s Prophecy
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