Kiwi Hellenist

The Phaiakes deliver Odysseus to his home island, Ithake, leaving him asleep on the shore. When he wakes up, he hides their gifts to him in ...

Odysseus’ wanderings are the most famous sequence in Homer’s Odyssey . The Cyclops, the Lotus-eaters, and Circe are some of the epic’s most ...

A catalogue of onscreen versions of the Odyssey . This list includes metatheatrical versions, parodies, and adaptations of parodies (includi...

The Odyssey is coming out soon, a feature film starring Matt Damon, and directed and written by Christopher Nolan. Various online pundits...

In the Odyssey , the following kind of thing is absolutely normal. For a regular novelist this scene would be a triumph. For Homer, it was T...

Puns may be the lowest form of humour these days, but in early Greek literature, they’re more like word magic. ... τὸν δορίγαμβρον ἀμφι...