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The OdysseyOn the coverUlysses and the Sirens, J. W. Waterhouse, 1891
The Odyssey
Ten years after the fall of Troy, the soldier Odysseus is still trying to get home, past monsters, witches, and the wrath of the sea god, while his faithful wife and untested son hold off a house full of suitors. The original story of homecoming.
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The original adventure story, monsters, gods, disguises, a long journey home, and still one of the best. Three thousand years old and it reads like it was built to be loved.
Folklore in this book
The Grove · Greek folkloreThe gods of Olympus, the monsters of the wine-dark sea, and the heroes who crossed them: the myth-world of Homer and Ovid, cut in marble by the ancients and painted anew by the Pre-Raphaelites.Zeus · Athena · Poseidon · Circe and 31 moreEnter the realm →SettingMythic Greece & the seas
A bronze-age world where gods meddle in human affairs, a guest must be fed before he’s questioned, and a king’s house stands only as long as he can defend it. Glory and homecoming were a warrior’s twin dreams.
On screen & beyond
- Andrei Konchalovsky’s TV miniseries (1997)
- Loosely retold in the Coens’ O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)