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

Nearly 1,800 years ago, someone in the Olympia region picked up a stylus and began scratching poetry into a still-unfired ...

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

Homer’s The Odyssey has long been held up as a powerful example of “the hero’s journey” – a narrative structure that has ...

From the lost sequel to the poem's oral roots, here are five things you might not know about the origins and mystique surrounding Homer's epic poem, the 'Odysse ...