For millennia, the epic poems of Homer have profoundly shaped Western literature and thought with their timeless tales of ...

Harvard University Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature Gregory Nagy weighs in on how Christopher Nolan ...

We meet Odysseus first of all in “The Iliad,” the great war poem about the Trojan War. There Odysseus is one of the captains fighting the Trojans, but he is only one among many, and his army ...

Few figures in ancient mythology remain as legendary to this day as Odysseus, the fabled Greek king of Ithaca who devised the Trojan Horse, outwitted the Cyclops, and resisted the deadly call of the ...

As Bernthal narrates, saying things like "some say he’s rich or some say he’s poor,” the trailer shows us people moving in ...

“The Odyssey” is a classic piece of literature by Homer that is divided between 24 different books, preceded by “The Iliad.” It tells the 10-year journey story of Odysseus, king of Ithaca ...

Ralph Fiennes plays heroic Odysseus in "The Return," an adaptation of "The Odyssey." Everyone knows Homer's epic – so where's the cinematic universe?

The movie depicts Odysseus not as a “young strapping hero,” director Uberto Pasolini says, but as “a man who has the pain of 20 years of violence, travels and of guilt for what he has done ...

We Followed Odysseus Hal Roth Seaworthy Publications. Ithaca on the western shore of Greece. The distance there from Troy, Hal Roth tells us, is only 565 nautical miles. ... Like the Iliad, ...

Did Odysseus spin a series of tall tales to impress his audience? asks Gregory Elder. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 56°F. Sunday, March 2nd 2025 e-Edition. Home Page.