While the poet deals in truth, he does not necessarily utilize literal facts. Desiring to understand and experience the original to the greatest extent possible, we ask of our translation: Is it faithful? In so doing, we ask the same question of our translators that has been asked for generations of Odysseus: Is the poet faithful to the truth?-a question especially fitting to the tradition of the Odyssey. Those who read the work in translation encounter another poet: the translator. In doing so, Odysseus reveals to his audience that he, like Homer, is a poet. The arch-poet Homer turns the story over to his hero, Odysseus, and it is Odysseus himself who tells of his voyages. The great narrative of the Odyssey is not entirely told by Homer. The following article was originally published in FORMA Journal.
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