What does the Odyssey offer a modern reader?  Like the Iliad, it is about determining what one's life is worth and about connecting one's life to an understanding of what is demanded by one's family, friends, and community.  It asks what is a home? What does it mean to be a man or a woman? It teaches Odysseus and the audience the difference between sex and what marriage entails, as well as what union with a woman involves. It rocks! Text:  Odyssey, Norton edition, translated by Emily Wilson, in an extraordinary contemporary voice.