"The Wanderings of Odysseus", by C. Witt & F. Younghusband

The following is the book The Wanderings of Ulysses (1885) by Carl Witt (1815-1891) and translated by Frances Younghusband. More information.

  1. The Ciconians and the Lotus Eaters

  2. The Greeks in the Cave of the Cyclops

  3. Odysseus Escapes from the Cyclops

  4. The Island of Aeolus and the Laestrygonians

  5. The Enchantress Circe

  6. Odysseus and Circe

  7. The Land of the Dead — Odysseus Meets his Mother, Elpenor, and Tiresias

  8. The Land of the Dead (continued) — Ajax, Achilles, and Agamemnon

  9. The Sirens

  10. Scylla and Charybdis

  11. The Cattle of Helios

  12. The Island of Calypso

  13. Penelope and her Suitors

  14. Telemachus and his Guest

  15. Telemachus Assembles the Citizens

  16. The Departure of Telemachus

  17. The Feast at Pylos

  18. The Sacrifice to Athena

  19. Telemachus is Received by Menelaus and Helen

  20. Menelaus Gives Telemachus Tidings of his Father

  21. The Plot of the Suitors

  22. Odysseus Leaves the Island of Calypso

  23. Odysseus Reaches the Land of the Pheacians

  24. Nausicaa

  25. The Palace of Alcinous

  26. The Pheacian Games

  27. Odysseus Relates his Adventures to the Pheacians

  28. Odysseus is Conveyed to Ithaca by the Pheacians

  29. Athena Warns Odysseus against the Suitors

  30. The Swineherd Eumaeus

  31. Odysseus Relates a Feigned Story to the Swineherd

  32. Menelaus Speeds his Departing Guest

  33. Eumaeus Relates his Past History

  34. The Meeting of Odysseus and Telemachus

  35. The Suitors Make a New Conspiracy

  36. Odysseus Comes to the Palace and is Recognized by the Hound Argus

  37. Odysseus among the Suitors

  38. The Beggar Irus

  39. Evening in the Palace

  40. Penelope Converses with the Stranger

  41. The Boar Hunt on Mount Parnassus

  42. Odysseus is Recognized by Eurycleia

  43. The Herdsman Philoetius

  44. The Warning of the Soothsayer

  45. Odysseus Makes Himself Known to Eumaeus and Philoetius

  46. The Bow of Odysseus

  47. Odysseus Makes Trial of the Bow

  48. The Slaughter of the Suitors Begins

  49. The Punishment of Melanthius

  50. The Destruction of the Suitors

  51. Eurycleia Carries the Good News to Penelope

  52. Odysseus and Penelope

  53. Odysseus and Laertes

  54. The Final Struggle


Translator’s Note

The kind reception afforded to the Myths of Hellas and The Trojan War has led to the translation of the present volume (the last of those written by Professor Witt) in the hope that, like its predecessors, it may not only be welcomed as a story, but may also find its use as a holiday task and even as a regular reading and lesson book.

* The rest of this note hasn’t been included here, as I won’t be using that information.


Source of the text, etc.

The scanned book is available at Library of Congress (loc.gov). I at Classicsness.com have proofread, edited, etc., the OCR version. Minor changes have been made, but, in general, every spelling, word, sentence, paragraph, etc., is as in the original (however, most changes are about having more paragraphs for a more effortless reading experience, and occasionally some old-fashioned spellings such as to-morrowtomorrow). An important change introduced in this version is that of the name of the protagonist, which has been changed to Odysseus instead of the original Ulysses; other such changes include Athena instead of Athene, etc.

The original author is German philologist Carl Witt (1815-1891); the translator appears as Frances Younghusband, who might be Sir Francis Edward Younghusband (1863-1942) according to this; on the other hand, here they refer to Miss Younghusband, her, etc., so it might be a different person (a woman, even!!) of whom nothing can be found (but could it be this one?).