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library.forgemesh.io – Ask the Odyssey is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).
Full-text passage retrieval from Homer's Odyssey: returns the most relevant excerpts with chapter and location citations for a given question.
Price / call$0.01
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How this service works
Ask a question about Homer's Odyssey and get back the most relevant passages from the text itself, with chapter and location citations. Retrieval only — full-text search, not a generated summary or answer. No license, no API key required.
Output
An ordered list of up to 15 text passages from Homer's Odyssey most semantically relevant to the question, each accompanied by chapter and location citations. No AI-generated summaries or interpretations — raw source text only.
Example use cases
Literary essay citation lookup
“I'm writing a paper on hospitality in ancient Greece — can you pull up to 10 passages from the Odyssey that deal with xenia or guest-friendship, with their chapter and location references?”
Student homework help
“My homework asks about Odysseus's encounter with the Sirens — can you find me the actual text from the Odyssey that describes that scene, with citations so I can quote it properly?”
Thematic character research
“I want to understand how Penelope is portrayed in the Odyssey — can you retrieve the 8 most relevant passages about her character or actions, with chapter citations?”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://library.forgemesh.io/ask-the-odysseyWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need verbatim cited passages from Homer's Odyssey specifically — not a summary, paraphrase, or AI-generated answer. Ideal for literary research, academic citation, fact-checking claims about the Odyssey, or grounding answers in the primary source text. If the user needs passages from a different work or a generated interpretation rather than raw retrieved text, look elsewhere.
Side effects
- Question too vague or off-topic may return low-relevance passages
- Exceeding the max limit of 15 returns an error or is capped
- Payment failure (x402) if USDC is not provided or insufficient
- Empty or null question field returns a validation error
- Server unavailability returns a 5xx error
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | Max passages (default 5, max 15) |
| question | string | Your question about the book, e.g. "how does Odysseus escape the Cyclops?" |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"count": 3,
"title": "The Odyssey",
"author": "Homer",
"method": "full-text retrieval — returns the most relevant passages from the book for your question; no summarization or generation",
"book_id": 1727,
"passages": [
{
"text": "…I told him my name was [No]man, and my mother and father and all my friends, too, called me [No]man…",
"chapter": 9,
"location": "chapter 9, passage #55"
}
],
"question": "how does Odysseus escape the Cyclops"
}
}Tags
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