Way back in grade shcool.

Yes when I was at school. Give me stars lots of them.

Several times. I partly understand it...providing my old prof understood it....

I have read an abridged version. It was in good lucid understandable English. Do I get any stars for reading abridged versions?

Can I have more than one star? I had to read it in Latin in high school.

I watch the Simpsons.That has to count fo something!

I get a star? Hurray! I have also read Aristotles Poetics and his metaphysics and after months and months of concentrated effort and reading that one same damn line over and over again that you just can't get past... I finally succumb and just allowed myself to understand. It is a great moment when we can tame and tackle great literature.

I read it about 2yrs ago, understood some of it, not all.

I have and I did, took forever though, do I get a bonus for having read the Iliad as well?

Yes I read it in a class in high school, with each person in class sort of taking the different characters and trying to find the meaning o fit all. What a mess. But I did understand and enjoy it eventually. I actually have fond memories. I guess that just means I'm nuts LOL!!!!

yes, was'ent everyone required to read that in middle school?

i read that freshman year in high school. i loved that book, there was so much imagination involved!

Not only have I read and understood it - I've read it and studied in the original Homeric Greek.

I read and understood it, but that was many years ago.

I have not only read it and understood it, but I enjoyed it immensely.

I read it in English. Do I get a star if I understood it even if I don't understand Attic Greek? Great story. But some majorly boring bits.

No, but (and don't judge me) I have seen O Brother Where Art Thou? and I think that after seeing that I have a better chance of understanding Odyssey, as that movie was loosly based on the book.

POETICALLY I have leafed through it when I'm a baby Then red over and through as a child And I understood that one who can't understand it Won't understand onself really!

yes, and i understood it.

yes, but does it mean I didn't understand it if I don't know what you mean by 'understood it'?

yes and the books is a lot like pulp fiction the beginning is the middle, bounces around from here to there; but I loved it, great story.

Only in an English translation. So I don't suppose I deserve any stars.

I had to read it many years ago in an abridged version at school, but I was too young to appreciate it. Our teacher loved the book and thought that it was about the meaning of life and the Ancient Greek equivalent of the Bible. As many people know,it is the story of Odysseus a Greek King and Hero who is forced by duty to leave his wife and young son to fight in the Trojan war and who ends up having to spend many years trying to return home after getting on the wrong side of the God Posedion. In his journey, Odysseus has many adventures.He fights in wars, he visites Hades, he has sex with a Godess, he becomes a celebrity athlete and much more. However, he is not happy until he gets home. Our teacher thought that the book was about the meaning of life and imortality and what is is important to us. He argued that our own lives are an Odyssey of sorts just like in the legend.Some seek immortality after death.Some seek fame and a sort of immortality by being famous or by achieving great things.Others submerge themselves in the pleasures of life and try and forget about lifes shortness. My former teacher said that in his view, the moral of the story is that family and friends are the most important thing in life and our only real immortality is through our descendants.