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World Poetry Day: Ancient Greece’s Classics, From Homer to Sappho’s Poems
As people across the globe celebrate World Poetry Day on March 21, we delve into the world of poetry in ancient Greece, from ...
Odyssey’s last chapter dispenses with gods and thrills until the brutal end
The Return, Uberto Pasolini’s adaptation of The Odyssey’s closing episode, does away with all that. The Olympians make no ...
The Cornell Daily Sun6d
The Trojan War and an Ancient Language Come to Ithaca
On Wednesday, March 12, the Trojan War began in Ithaca with the powerful cries of Emily Wilson speaking in Ancient Greek. Yet ...
Greek Reporter5d
Was the Trojan Horse an Actual Wooden Horse?
Was the Trojan Horse really a huge statue of a horse, or was it something else entirely? Researchers have differing ideas and ...
The Express Tribune4d
What we know about Nolan's 'The Odyssey'
In February, The Odyssey unveiled Matt Damon's first look as the eponymous hero, Odysseus. Damon was clad in a soldier's gear ...
The Cornell Daily Sun6d
The Trojan War and an Ancient Language Come to Ithaca
Emily Wilson is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and she had translated The Odyssey ... of the Iliad in Ancient Greek. Their voices boomed out a language spoken by Homer almost ...
½ The Return is worth watching for Fiennes and Binoche
The Return, which reunites Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes for the first time since the 1996 Oscar winner The English ...
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From Homer’s “Odyssey”
In Book IV of Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus’s young son, Telémakhos, visits the court of his father’s erstwhile comrade-in-arms at Troy, Menelaos, the king of S ...
'The Odyssey' movie: What we know so far about Christopher Nolan's 'mythic action epic'
Christopher Nolan is working on an adaption of Homer's epic poem "Odyssey" though it is not yet known how he plans to adapt ...