Ten years after the fall of Troy, the hero Odysseus is still trying to reach his home on the small Greek island of Ithaca. The gods are against him. His ship has been wrecked. His crew is gone. Most of the world believes he is dead — including his wife Penelope, who is besieged at home by a hundred suitors who want her hand.
Homer's Odyssey is the older of the two great Greek epics, composed around 750 BCE. It is the story most adventure novels still echo. A clever man, twenty years from home, fighting through monsters, gods, witches, the dead, and his own pride to reach his wife and son. The Cyclops, the Sirens, the bag of winds, the trick of the bow — these are all Odyssey scenes.
Storica's A2 adaptation keeps the great set-piece episodes intact and rewrites Homer's Greek hexameters into clear A2 prose with simple past tense. Twenty-five chapters. By the end you have read the oldest adventure story in the western canon, in your target language.
A2 is the level where adventure stories start to actually work — past tense, dialogue, characters with motivation. The Odyssey adapted to A2 keeps the set-piece episodes intact (Cyclops, Sirens, bow contest) and trades Homer's thirty-line similes for one-sentence ones. You read the chapters in the order Homer composed them, just in vocabulary that fits where you are.
Elementary. You handle simple past tense, basic dialogue, and short connected paragraphs. Vocabulary is around 1,500 words. You can describe what you read.
Yes — every book in the Storica catalog is available in all seven supported languages: French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, and English. The Odyssey was originally written in Ancient Greek, but you choose your reading language when you start.
A2. Elementary. You handle simple past tense, basic dialogue, and short connected paragraphs. Vocabulary is around 1,500 words. You can describe what you read.
About one month at fifteen minutes a day. The adaptation runs to 25 short chapters — short enough to read before bed, long enough to actually move your level.
No. Storica's adaptation is the version you read. We keep the characters, plot beats, and tone of the original — and rewrite the language to fit the level. If you've read the original before, you'll recognise the story; if you haven't, the adaptation is a complete reading of the book.
Pick up where you left off. There are no streaks, no penalties, and no notifications begging you back. Day 12 is still Day 12 a week later.
The Odyssey is rated A2, so we'd suggest starting with one of our A0 or A1 books first if you're brand-new to your target language. Check our shelf at /library/ — the readers there are short, gentle, and built specifically for week one.
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