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# Reading the Odyssey to My Four-Month-Old
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/reading-the-odyssey-to-my-four-month-old/
- Published: 2018-01-18T15:59:41.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:25:37.000Z
- Description: I see a real connection between kids' literature and epic poetry: they're both meant to be read aloud.
- Author: Steven Weinberg
- Tags: Comics, The Odyssey, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-18 14:37 (2018)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2018/01/odyssey-1400.jpg)

*This piece is collaged from the artwork of Steven Weinberg and an engraving series by Theodoor van Thulden (1632–1633), which were themselves made after a series of paintings by Francesco Primaticcio in the 1530s. Special thanks to the* [*Rijksmuseum*](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/?ref=hyperallergic.com) *for help sourcing all of these images.*