Homer, The Odyssey, Scroll 11, line 13 Homer, The Odyssey Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy., Ed. ("Agamemnon", "Hom. Od. 9.1", "denarius") All Search Options [view abbreviations] Home Collections/Texts Perseus Catalog Research Grants Open Source About Help Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position: book: Scroll 1 Scroll 2 Scroll 3 Scroll 4 Scroll 5 Scroll 6 Scroll 7 Scroll 8 Scroll 9 Scroll 10 Scroll 11 Scroll 12 Scroll 13 Scroll 14 Scroll 15 Scroll 16 Scroll 17 Scroll 18 Scroll 19 Scroll 20 Scroll 21 Scroll 22 Scroll 23 Scroll 24 card: lines 1-1lines 2-2lines 3-3lines 4-4lines 5-5lines 6-6lines 7-7lines 8-8lines 9-9lines 10-10lines 11-11lines 12-12lines 13-13lines 14ff. 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Scroll 22 lines 1-1 lines 2-2 lines 3-3 lines 4-4 lines 5-5 lines 6-6 lines 7-7 lines 8-8 lines 9-9 lines 10-10 lines 11-11 lines 12-12 lines 13ff. Scroll 23 lines 1-1 lines 2-2 lines 3-3 lines 4-4 lines 5-5 lines 6-6 lines 7-7 lines 8ff. Scroll 24 lines 1-1 lines 2-2 lines 3-3 lines 4-4 lines 5-5 lines 6-6 lines 7-7 lines 8-8 lines 9-9 lines 10-10 lines 11-11 lines 12ff. Current location in this text. Enter a Perseus citation to go to another section or work. Full search options are on the right side and top of the page. "After him I saw huge Orion in a meadow full of asphodel driving the ghosts of the wild beasts that he had killed upon the mountains, and he had a great bronze club in his hand, unbreakable for ever and ever. "And I saw Tityus son of Gaia stretched upon the plain and covering some nine acres of ground. Two vultures on either side of him were digging their beaks into his liver, and he kept on trying to beat them off with his hands, but could not; for he had violated Zeus’ mistress Leto as she was going through Panopeus on her way to Pytho. "I saw also the dreadful fate of Tantalus, who stood in a lake that reached his chin; he was dying to quench his thirst, but could never reach the water, for whenever the poor creature stooped to drink, it dried up and vanished, so that there was nothing but dry ground - parched by a daimôn. There were tall trees, moreover, that shed their fruit over his head - pears, pomegranates, apples, sweet figs and juicy olives, but whenever the poor creature stretched out his hand to take some, the wind tossed the branches back again to the clouds. "And I saw Sisyphus at his endless task raising his prodigious stone with both his hands. With hands and feet he tried to roll it up to the top of the hill, but always, just before he could roll it over on to the other side, its weight would be too much for him, and the pitiless stone would come thundering down again on to the plain. Then he would begin trying to push it up hill again, and the sweat ran off him and the steam rose after him. Homer. The Odyssey. Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original. Samuel Butler. Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy. A. C. Fifield, London. 1900 (?). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system. show Browse Bar   load focus Notes (W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, 1886) hide Places (automatically extracted) View a map of the most frequently mentioned places in this document. Sort places alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency Click on a place to search for it in this document. Pytho (Greece) (1) Download Pleiades ancient places geospacial dataset for this text. hide References (4 total) Commentary references to this page (3): W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886), 10.508 W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886), 12.51 Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), 23.73 Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (1): LSJ, πεῖÏ�αÏ� hide Search Searching in English. 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