Just How Different Is The Odyssey from Homer’s Epic? Here Are 5 Plot Points That People Are Calling Out

The massive summer hit has everyone talking about what Christopher Nolan changed from the original poem. Here are the ...

Who was Homer, author of the Odyssey?

Who wrote the Odyssey? Homer, obviously: that is what we’ve been told since the late 6th century BCE, when ancient Greeks ...

The Story Behind Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’: Illustrated Artworks Of The Legendary Tales Related To Gods, Monsters & Odysseus’ Epic Return

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

8 ways that Christopher Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ changes Homer’s epic

Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ preserves the broad arc of Homer’s epic while radically re-imagining many of its most ...

Did Homer really exist? The mystery historians still debate

Scholars have debated for centuries whether the legendary poet was a real person, a collective of storytellers, or a literary ...

In Homer’s epic, a bold princess helps Odysseus home – but not in Nolan’s film. Who is Nausicaa?

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey has been criticised for simplifying its complex characters – particularly women. We asked an ...

To Sell Homer’s ‘Odyssey,’ Publishers, Like Its Hero, Get Crafty

The market for the epic poem is as crowded as a certain Ithacan palace, and publishers have had to get crafty to attract readers to their editions.
The Daily Signal

Victor Davis Hanson: The Real History Behind Homer’s ‘Odyssey’

This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to ...
The Atlantic

The Melville of American Painting

This kind of flag-waving is no longer fashionable, or even comfortable, in an art world striving to be global and in a country where arguments over what counts as “real America” become nastier by the ...