Sixteen Dollars for a Fossil: Homer’s The Odyssey
Homer's "The Odyssey" highlights the variation in language and reader perception that may go quietly unnoticed among translations.
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The Reformed Man: Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey and the Modern Hero
Nolan's Odysseus is a hero of insight, presented for an audience who would shy away from Homer's original more brutish ruler, heedless of those he harms.
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The Long Way Home: The Odyssey as a Metaphor for Life
Most of what appears on this site concerns itself with the present tense of injustice – the ACT, the AFP, the slow grinding machinery of institutions that would rather forget…
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In Praise of Nostos
Portrayal of character in The Odyssey highlights the virtue of the resilient individual who survives and prospers, despite the many who would leech off them.
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