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Retold for modern humans

The complete classics.
Without the homework.

Whole books. Human English. The gods, the disasters, the jokes, and the consequences still in the room.

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The Odyssey cover: a ship crossing a dark sea beneath Homer’s Complete Epic

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The Odyssey

Homer’s Complete Epic, Retold for Modern Humans

The long way home, with every monster, marriage, grudge, and god still in the room.

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The Iliad cover: a lone warrior facing a burning city under a copper sky

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The Iliad

Homer’s Complete Epic, Retold for Modern Humans

The complete Iliad. The full tragedy. None of the homework.

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The Aeneid cover: a spear-bearing survivor looking toward a sunlit coast

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The Aeneid

Virgil’s Complete Epic, Retold for Modern Humans

A Trojan survivor carries a city’s future through fire, weather, and the gods’ long memory.

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The Epic of Gilgamesh cover beneath an ancient copper sky

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The Epic of Gilgamesh

Humanity’s First Epic, Retold for Modern Humans

The oldest great story is not small: friendship, kingship, grief, and the problem of surviving your own legend.

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Beowulf

An Old English Epic, Retold for Modern Humans

Old English, monsters, blood-debt, and a dragon waiting at the end of the hero’s idea of himself.

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