the english you're reading was never homer's — it belongs to whichever translator wrote it. we keep track of who did what, free at winedark.app/guides

Four cards from a deck on Sophocles' Ajax: Odysseus wins Achilles' armor without fighting; Ajax loses his mind and dies; and the man who argues he deserves burial is Odysseus, the man he died hating. Stage II of reading everything about Odysseus. Read in Golder & Pevear.

There is no one Odysseus. Every age invented its own — Homer's survivor, Virgil's villain, Dante's damned voyager. The syllabus that traces him: winedark.app

44 Greek plays survive complete. Add both Homeric epics and the whole inheritance is 46 books — one shelf, and finishable. A lifetime is longer than a memory, though. Wine-Dark keeps the record: what you read, in whose translation, out of which copy. winedark.app/?utm_source=bsky_brand

Five Odyssey translations, and they are different books. Lattimore follows the Greek word order. Lombardo is fast and spoken. Wilson keeps the line count exactly — 12,110. No ranking — they answer different questions. winedark.app/guides/choosing-your-odyssey?utm_source=bsky_brand

Of the thousands of plays the Greeks wrote, 44 survive complete. Add both Homeric epics and the whole inheritance is 46 books — it fits on one shelf. I built a tracker for it: what you've read, in whose translation, out of which copy. winedark.app/?utm_source=bsky_brand