When Odysseus finally reaches Ithaca – in Homer’s poem and again, played by Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s new film – he ...

For centuries, Homer's epic poem and central character Odysseus have been misunderstood, but these are the main ways people ...

Christopher Nolan gives us a psychologically modern Odysseus who undergoes a traumatic dissociation, is wracked by guilt but ...

In The Telegony, Odysseus travels to Thesprotia. There, he marries queen Callidice, and the two have a named Polypoetes. Then ...

Historians trace the legendary route of Homer's hero from Troy to Ithaca, blending real geography with mythological locations ...

The hero spent a decade trying to get home, but most of it was trapped on islands, not sailing.

Matt Damon is by no means the first leading man to don the armour of Homer's nomadic monarch, despite the fact that ...

Some aspects of Christopher Nolan's take on Greek myths are straightforward adaptation. But it ends in a very different place ...

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

The newest adaptation of the epic is the movie The Odyssey by famed director Christopher Nolan. But who is Odysseus, and what is his story?

So many, in fact, that at a certain point his own soldiers stop trusting him and start doing the opposite of what he ...

It took Odysseus more than a decade to return to his native Ithaca from Troy in the ‘Odyssey.' Nowadays, the journey can be ...