A New Translation from the
Original Greek into Modern English
My grandkids are constantly teaching me new things.
That’s what sent Scott Walker back to Homer — a trip to the movie The Odyssey with one grandson had him thinking about the story again, and a conversation with another grandson, still smarting from a high school assignment, confirmed it: actually reading Homer is hard. So he did what he does with anything that intimidates him: he worked with AI to translate it,
one book at a time, all 24 of them, straight from the ancient Greek into plain modern English —no borrowed lines, no textbook stiffness, just the story as it actually happens. And he added a few twists to his request to make it even easier to read…
The Odyssey: A New Translation keeps all twenty-four books intact, with clear chapter titles, phonetic pronunciation guides for the names that trip everyone up, and prose built for a reader who’s never touched a classic before. It’s the same wandering king, the same impossible ten years home — just finally readable.
The classics were never meant to be locked away. Now they’re not.
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