We are World Classics. A living edition of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, aligned line by line to the polytonic Greek across five living languages and four centuries of English scholarship.

Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are not museum pieces; they are urgent dramas of wrath, grief, hospitality, cunning, and homecoming. Yet modern readers are often forced to choose between stiff cribs and loose adaptations that lose the spine of the Greek verse.

Here every book is presented in both a dynamic 2026 Lyric-Poetic verse edition and a clear Standard Reading prose edition across English, Spanish, French, and German—grounded directly in the Perseus Digital Library Greek text so you can read effortlessly or inspect the exact polytonic Greek lines side by side.