Homer’s The Odyssey isn’t just an ancient story—it ... Hermes arrives with Zeus’s command, and Calypso, heartbroken, agrees to let him go. Odysseus builds a raft and sets out, only ...

Editors’ note: The following lines are excerpted from The Odyssey: Translated, with an Introduction and Notes, by Daniel Mendelsohn, published this month by the University of Chicago Press. A tense ...

"The Odyssey" stars Matt Damon as the hero Odysseus ... They defeat witches and sea monsters, and anger Zeus and Poseidon. But Odysseus has Athena on his side, trying to help him get home.

Telemachus (Odysseus’ son), Penelope (Odysseus’ wife), Athena, Circe, Poseidon and Zeus are all major characters. Historians and scholars date “The Odyssey” to sometime between 750-650 BC.