Translator's Preface ix Introduction xix 1 Trouble at Home 3 2 A Gathering and a Parting 16 3 In the Great Hall of Nestor 28 4 With Menelaos and Helen 43 5 A Raft on the High Seas 67 6 Laundry Friends 81 7 The Warmest Welcome 91 8 Songs, Challenges, Dances, and Gifts 101 9 A Battle, the Lotos, and a Savage's Cave 118 10 Mad Winds, Laistrugonians, and an Enchantress 135 11 The Land of the Dead 152 12 Evil Song, a Deadly Strait, and Forbidden Herds 171 13 A Strange Arrival Home 184 14 The House of the Swineherd 197 15 Son and Father Converging 213 16 Father and Son Reunited 229 17 Unknown in His Own House 243 18 Fights in the Great Hall 261 19 Memory and Dream in the Palace 274 20 Dawn of the Death-Day 292 21 The Stringing of the Bow 304 22 Revenge in the Great Hall 317 23 Husband and Wife at Last 332 24 Last Tensions and Peace 343 Notes 359 Names in the Odyssey 409 Bibliography 417