Why did it take Odysseus ten years to get from Troy to Ithaca, a journey which should have only taken two weeks? The Odyssey reveals why.

There is considerable irony in the upcoming events centering on Paul Cézanne in his hometown of Aix-en-Provence, France. Although today there is a large statue of the artist at the city’s central ...

When I first heard about The Return, Uberto Pasolini’s adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey, I was excited to watch Ralph Fiennes take on the role of an aged Odysseus as he finally came home after the ...

The Nekyia in Homer’s Odyssey unveils Odysseus’ haunting journey through Hades and the ancient Greek vision of the afterlife.

For millennia, the epic poems of Homer have profoundly shaped Western literature and thought with their timeless tales of heroism, gods and the enduring human spirit. While The Iliad plunges us into ...