Odyssia

The Odyssia was a Latin translation of Homer's Greek epic poem, the Odyssey, by Lucius Livius Andronicus. Livius Andronicus, a Greek slave freed in Rome, likely created the Odyssia for use as a schoolbook around 240 BCE.1

Written in the Saturnian metre, the work is considered to have had limited poetic merit, with fewer than 50 lines surviving today. Despite this, it was the first major poem in Latin and the earliest example of artistic translation. Livius Andronicus also introduced the Latin name "Ulysses" for the hero Odysseus. The Odyssey itself tells the story of Odysseus's ten-year journey home after the Trojan War.12