Three ways in
New to Homer
Start in the middle of the action — Odysseus among the Cyclopes, Book 9, in Reading Mode.
Begin at Od. 9 → Reading the GreekParallel text with parse popups on every word, LSJ and Cunliffe one click away.
Open scholar view → The MapsEvery place named in the poems, plotted, with its identification’s certainty marked.
Browse the maps →What the edition adds
Scene by scene
Every book broken into its scenes, with a one-line gloss for each.
1.1–7 · Proem
The poet invokes the Muse to sing the wrath of Achilles and its cost.
The calendar
Every book keyed to its day in the poem’s own reckoning of time.
Day 1 of 21
Maps, honestly marked
Every place plotted; identifications graded by how sure the tradition is.
certain traditional speculative mythical
Two lexicons
LSJ and Cunliffe, from any Greek word, without leaving the page.
LSJ Cunliffe