When Odysseus' boats meet the whirlpool, Charybdis, McCaughrean uses the simile "cracked like eggs against the rocky seabed" to describe their destruction. The Odyssey begins with an ending ...

As Christopher Nolan films his adaptation of The Odyssey, another recent adaptation is topping the charts on Paramount+.

Did Odysseus really travel all over the Mediterranean, as commonly believed? This article examines the evidence.

The Odyssey will offer even wilder sequences. Over the course of his incredible journey home, Odysseus encounters the whirlpool Charybdis, the witch-goddess Circe, the one-eyed giant Cyclops ...

adapting not all of The Odyssey but only the second half, starting from Odysseus’s return to Ithaca, after 20 years of absence. The great adventures – Cyclops, the Lotus-Eaters, Circe, Scylla and ...