A few days ago
Amanda

How many pages are in the book odyssey??

I have to read the book “The odyssey” by Homer for summer reading and I still have to finish reading “The adventures of Huckle Berry Finn.” I am trying to figure out how many pages are in the Odyssey. I havent gotten the book yet cuz my dad is waiting till I finish my first book. So any one know how many pages?

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Depends on the printer, of course. My copy of Robert Fagles’ translation is 537 pages for the poem itself, with another 100 or so for the introduction and notes.

Frankly, if it’s taken you all summer to not finish Huckleberry Finn, you haven’t got a chance. Too bad. They’re both great and important books.

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4 years ago
Harold
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A few days ago
Anonymous
I’ve had to read The Odyssey like three times over the past four years. The first time, it was like 563 pages. The second time, it was around 450. And the third time, something like 500 pages. It really depends on the print size, the publisher, the lay-out, etc.

It’s a pretty easy read, actually. Well, after the first “chapter” or two (the chapters are called “books,” though). It took us almost a whole trimester to read it when I was in high school (but we were writing papers and doing projects in between, too).

But last year, in college, we were expected to read the whole thing in about 4 or 5 days! It was do-able, but sucky, let me tell you.

Good book, but it’s not one to cram into a weekend (or even five days). I’d say you’ll need about two weeks, if you’re not a fast reader or you don’t like reading.

Good luck, though. I hope you like it. πŸ™‚

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A few days ago
PoisonShirt
The Penguin Classic version is 560 pages…I would guess they’re all going to be about that. It is, after all, an odyssey: it takes him 20 years to get from the end of the war back home to his wife…that’s gotta take a lot of explainin’.
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A few days ago
Harmy Tangent
Well, it’s long; I can tell you that. It helps to write down all the characters and what you know about them–there are MANY characters that you have to keep straight.

Specific number of pages? I’ve seen tiny volumes with tiny little print and larger books with legible print. Either way, you can do it!

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A few days ago
summahhh!
There’s different translations, but it’s like 400 pages. haha

We had to read it last year in class.

Just read Sparknotes. I swear it’s so much better. The book is in poetry form, so it’s not like you’ll have any idea what’s it’s about anyway. Just read the Sparknotes version.

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A few days ago
GoodGuy
what publisher ? diffrent publications has different pages. The original book has 12,110 lines of dactylic hexameter.
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A few days ago
tracymoo
Depends on how big the typeface is….and whether you’ll be reading it in the original Greek?

and BTW “Huckleberry” is one word

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A few days ago
Anonymous
560 pgs in the edition printed by penguin classics
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A few days ago
acrumble05
Almost 600 pages!!!
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