Odyssey: A Daily Odyssey through Homer’s The Odyssey
Sep 8, 2026 · 17 min · 10 segments
Cast alone upon the wreckage of his ship, Odysseus is carried forward by fate rather than choice. Survival now depends on endurance, timing, and the narrowest margin between destruction and escape…
Landon SolanoHost
Music Music But I kept pacing through my ship, till the surge loosened the sides from the keel, and the wave swept her along, stripped her of tackling, and break her mass clean off at the keel.
Therewith I lashed together both keel and mast, and sitting thereon I was borne by the ruinous winds.
Then verily the west wind ceased to blow with a rushing storm, and swiftly withal the south wind came, bringing sorrow to my soul, that so I might again measure back that space of sea, the way to deadly Charybdis.
All the night was I born, but with the rising of the sun I came to the rock of Sila, and to dread Charybdis.
Now she had sucked down her salt sea water, when I was swung up high to the tall fig tree whereto I clung like a bat.
and I could find no sure rest for my feet, nor place to stand, for the roots spread far below, and the branches hung aloft out of reach, long and large, and overshadowed Charybdis.
Steadfast I clung, till she should spew forth mast and keel again, and late they came to my desire.
At the hour when a man rises up from the assembly and goes to supper, one who judges the many quarrels of the young men that seek to him for law, at that same hour those timbers came forth to view from Mount Charybdis, and I let myself drop down hands and feet, and plunged heavily in the midst of the waters beyond the long timbers.
But the father of gods and of men suffered me no more to behold Scylla, else I should never have escaped from utter doom.
But why rehearse all this tale? For even yesterday I told it to thee, and to thy noble wife in thy house, and it liketh me not twice to tell a plain told tale.
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Music Music But I kept pacing through my ship, till the surge loosened the sides from the keel, and the wave swept her along, stripped her of tackling, and break her mass clean off at the keel.
Therewith I lashed together both keel and mast, and sitting thereon I was borne by the ruinous winds.
Then verily the west wind ceased to blow with a rushing storm, and swiftly withal the south wind came, bringing sorrow to my soul, that so I might again measure back that space of sea, the way to deadly Charybdis.
All the night was I born, but with the rising of the sun I came to the rock of Sila, and to dread Charybdis.
Now she had sucked down her salt sea water, when I was swung up high to the tall fig tree whereto I clung like a bat.
and I could find no sure rest for my feet, nor place to stand, for the roots spread far below, and the branches hung aloft out of reach, long and large, and overshadowed Charybdis.
Steadfast I clung, till she should spew forth mast and keel again, and late they came to my desire.
At the hour when a man rises up from the assembly and goes to supper, one who judges the many quarrels of the young men that seek to him for law, at that same hour those timbers came forth to view from Mount Charybdis, and I let myself drop down hands and feet, and plunged heavily in the midst of the waters beyond the long timbers.
But the father of gods and of men suffered me no more to behold Scylla, else I should never have escaped from utter doom.
But why rehearse all this tale? For even yesterday I told it to thee, and to thy noble wife in thy house, and it liketh me not twice to tell a plain told tale.
