"Nobody knows for sure exactly how Homer composed 'The Odyssey,' or even who Homer was, but scholars seem to agree at least that this foundational epic of Western culture originated in a preliterate ...

When the Odyssey first began to circulate in ancient Greece, no one knew its author. So how did ‘Homer’ become the name on ...

Christopher Nolan's blockbuster adaptation is sending readers back to Homer's "The Odyssey," nearly 3,000 years after the epic poem was first composed.

The word “odyssey” today often evokes a long, spirited adventure that doesn’t reflect the misery Odysseus endured in Homer’s ...

The Odyssey is more than just Christopher Nolan's adaptation of a great historical story; it's the culmination of themes that ...

Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ is based on Homer’s epic poem of the same name that follows King Odysseus on a 10-year ...

Modern filmmakers struggle to retell ancient stories without sanding away the very qualities that made them timeless.

In Homer’s epic, Odysseus’s men eat something so powerful that they forget about home. Which plants could have produced such ...

In the first line of Emily Wilson’s translation of Homer’s Odyssey, the poet beseeches the Muses, “Tell me about a complicated man.” That line, of course, refers to Odysseus, the crafty genius whose ...

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

Hollywood has a habit of rendering complex literary heroes into one-dimensional figures. Nolan’s The Odyssey dodges this trap ...

Nolan's The Odyssey is a cinematic masterpiece, but it's not a faithful adaptation. Anyone that says so, has either not read ...