Mr. Mendelsohn, the author of “An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic,” recently published a new translation of the ...

The Folio Society has announced a spectacular limited edition combined release of Homer’s ‘The Iliad' and ‘The Odyssey'. The books will use acclaimed translations by classical scholar Emily Wilson as ...

Following the groundbreaking visuals of Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s upcoming adaptation of The Odyssey is set to make ...

Stay with Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ and Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Our list’s first twist on The Odyssey is this 2019 literary novel, which weaves Igbo cosmology into a modern take on Homer ...

Go read the book!) This is what Agresto says ... take pretty much any classical author or topic and it is easy to adduce the Iliad and the Odyssey. That is why Homer is important. Should I have used ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. “The Odyssey” is a 24-book epic by Homer that tells the arduous 10-year journey story of Greek hero Odysseus, king of Ithaca ...

The book is a retelling of a poem written in ... In the original Greek, The Odyssey by Homer is structured as 24 books, which here means chapters. It is written as an epic (long) poem and has ...

In 1795, the German philologist Friedrich August Wolf published a book, “Prolegomena to Homer,” arguing that the Iliad and the Odyssey could not have been composed all at once in the form we ...

The new epic, which features stars such as Matt Damon, Zendaya and Tom Holland, will re-tell the classic Homer poem about the King of Ithaca's journey home following the Trojan War. It has now been ...