Re-reading this after being required to read it many years ago as an AP English summer assignment, and after teaching parts of it for 10 years as a 9th grade English teacher. I'm preparing to teach 9th grade again this year after about 2 years away from it and just thought it would be fun to read The Odyssey again. I had forgotten how the beginning of the book is all about Telemachos, Odysseus's son, and that Odysseus doesn't appear until about 1/3 of the way in.