Feature
Six Epic Artworks Inspired by “The Odyssey”
From J.M.W. Turner to Romare Bearden, visual artists have long turned to Homer’s masterpiece and the power of myth as sources of inspiration.
The Odyssey
News
2,300-Year-Old Fragment of Homer’s “Odyssey” Now on View at The Met
The papyrus fragment contains three lines from Book 20 of the epic that don’t appear in the modern text.
Film Review
A Homerist Reacts to Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”
“This is a tale of a man affected by trauma, but without any sense that it changed him at all.”
Comics
Reading the Odyssey to My Four-Month-Old
I see a real connection between kids' literature and epic poetry: they're both meant to be read aloud.
Art
Infected Paintings as an Allegory of Migration
Trouble resounds in the work of Joseph Nechvatal.
Performance
Ancient Greece Meets Contemporary New York
Readings are a staple of every literary calendar. Author Paul Rome has taken this bit of weeknight ritual and rebuilt it as equal parts performance and literature. To do so, he’s performed a simple trick: Rome writes to read.