You probably wouldn’t want to read Giesecke’s book from cover to cover ... Penelope reflects on the events of The Odyssey from the underworld, as do the Greek chorus of maids who are hanged ...

Emily Wilson’s name on the cover of a book is a likely sign that ... name for herself translating classic Greek texts - most notably Homer’s “The Odyssey” in 2017 and “The Iliad ...

The poem, which tells of Odysseus’ return from the Trojan War, is both the origin of our concept of nostalgia (from the Greek ... The book is part literary crash course on The Odyssey, part ...

Odyssey is the fourth, and possibly the last, book in Fry’s recounting of Greek myths and also the least faithful to the original epic. Fry plays with the idea of homecoming to cover other journeys ...