Humor plays a role in mellowing villainous characters beyond the suitors in “The Odyssey.” The cyclops Polyphemus is a buffonish but sympathetic oaf, and the witch Circe (Kate Hamill ...

The second half of "The Odyssey" is about Odysseus' final return home, and how he had to sneak into his own house in disguise to murder all the suitors. The earliest filmed version of "The Odyssey ...

During the course of this competition Odysseus slays the suitors, and is finally reunited with his wife when he takes off his disguise. Homer's Odyssey is regarded as one of the most influential ...

The Suitors is the debut novel from Ben Ehrenreich ... L.A. Weekly (among others)—and it’s a loose reworking of The Odyssey, Homer’s epic tale about the long-lost Greek warrior trying ...

The 3,000-year-old tale of Odysseus in Homer’s epic poem “The Odyssey” may not be the coolest ... sinewy shell of the warrior he once was. Suitors hound Queen Penelope (Juliette Binoche ...

The Odyssey of Homer is a Greek epic poem that ... which then leads to a slaughter of all the suitors by Odysseus and his son Telemachus. Peace on the island is eventually restored through the ...

since the abusive suitors can eventually force her hand. In Mary Beard’s forthcoming pamphlet, “Women and Power,” she writes about a scene in the Odyssey that she calls Western literature ...