As Christopher Nolan films his adaptation of The Odyssey, another recent adaptation is topping the charts on Paramount+.

Its best parts are not about sailing, or our hero’s grim and goofy goings-on with man-eating monsters and sirens, but involve prewar politics in Ithaca, and Odysseus’ tricky homecoming.

While the tales of Odysseus are enjoying their moment at present, the tales of Sinbad actually reveal a more attractive and ...

Adapting The Odyssey is a surprising endeavor for Nolan, as the story shows Odysseus fighting giant monsters like the Cyclops Polyphemus, the Sirens, and the six-headed sea beast Scylla.

Homer’s epic – in which Odysseus and his men are lost among the arduous high seas and face monsters from sirens to the Cyclops – is familiar territory. But The Return, the thoughtful new film from ...

The Odyssey is set in the world of the Ancient Greeks where the lives of gods, men and magical monsters intertwine. The story follows a hero, Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, who is trying to return ...

Unfortunately, we don't have any shots of the monster himself ... and the nymph Thoösa. Odysseus and his men were captured by the cyclops when they were cast ashore on the coast of Sicily.

For half the epic poem, we follow the hero as he struggles, sometimes against fantastical monsters and goddesses, sometimes against himself and his crew, to return. But Ralph Fiennes’s Odysseus ...

monsters and goddesses in favour of PTSD. There are no frills. The Corfu-shot exteriors are muddy. The palace is (appropriately) spartan. Even the loincloths are skimpy. Odysseus cannot escape the ...