The Odyssey, read in full
Ten years of war, ten years at sea — the oldest homecoming story ever told, free in full, with an AI companion beside every line.
The Odyssey is everywhere this summer — a new film adaptation has put Homer back at the center of the conversation. The film is one way into the story. The original is another: three thousand years old, free in the public domain, and stranger and richer than any retelling.
For the next three weeks, IO's Discover tab leads with The Long Way Home — a cover story built around the epic and everything it launched. Homer's Odyssey and Iliad, Virgil's answer in the Aeneid, the mythographers who kept the stories alive, and Joyce's Ulysses, the modern echo of the voyage home. Every book is free, in full, forever.
You don't read it alone. IO's reading companion sits beside the text — twelve expert lenses that deepen whatever passage you're in, from close reading to historical context to plain-language translation of the knotty parts.
Download IO, open Discover, and start the voyage.
