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• - By, John Marincola (Union College, Schenectady)
  
• - By Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Temple University. Book-by-book review of characters and key events, as well as general chronology, a thematic structure for Odysseus' wanderings, and links to e-texts.
  
• - A reconstruction of the music of parts of Homer's Odyssey, by composer Ioannidis Nikolaos. Audio, original Greek text and English translation.
  
• - Hypertext of Samuel Butler's translation, from the MIT archive. Divided by book.
  
• - Prose translation by folklorist Andrew Lang, with S. H. Butcher, tracing the adventures of the epic hero Odysseus. Divided by book with closing sonnet.
  
• - Bartleby edition of the 1857 English language translation by George Chapman.
  
• - The second book of the Odyssey shows how Penelope is an equal to Odysseus in craftiness.
  
• - Carefully sorted links to Odyssey resources, with special emphasis on comparing multiple translations in parallel. Subpage explores Joyce's Ulysses parallels in detail.
  
• - Map showing the descents to the Underworld made by Odysseus and Aeneas.
  
• - "The Following links will take you to substantive reviews of recent books on the Odyssey from the Bryn Mawr Classical Review."
  
• - Translated by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang.
  
• - Site originally created as a 9th grade English project, offering analysis of key passages and plot elements, as well as a partial character glossary and related links.
  
• - "In this web game you can choose to be either Odysseus himself or his young son Telemachus or his beautiful wife, Penelope."
  
• - Features background on the Homeric tradition, summary, themes, and pictures.
  
• - Odysseus' information gathering trip to the Underworld.
  
• - Loeb's English translation
  
• - A searchable online version, with book summaries, biographical information on the poet, and a map of the Greece of his times. No translation attribution given.
  
• - Free HTML e-text of Butler's translation of The Odyssey, available page by page.