For millennia, the epic poems of Homer have profoundly shaped Western literature and thought with their timeless tales of ...

On the Greek island of Ithaca, archaeologists recently uncovered new evidence that suggests ancient travelers once made ...

The bottom half of the graphic shows Odysseus’ 10-year journey home after the war. Turn the page upside down, continuing in a clockwise motion, to see what Odysseus encountered.

In Greek mythology, the story of Odysseus and the Sirens illustrates a paradigmatic example of self-control. When the hero of Homer's epic prepared to travel past the Sirens, mythical creatures ...

Odysseus' Journey Home Will Not Be Further Sabotaged By The Sirens The Odyssey will also likely dive further into mythical elements by including the Sirens, which are half-woman, half-bird creatures.

There are even male sirens if you go back far enough. And, as Emily Wilson pointed out in a Twitter thread, the sirens are never described as sexy or desirable in the original text.

We Followed Odysseus Hal Roth Seaworthy Publications Ithaca on the western shore of Greece. The distance there from Troy, Hal Roth tells us, is only 565 nautical miles. But due to some celebrated ...

Sirens emerge through a thick layer of fog, floating across the stage in bridal dresses and veils. The sirens bind and blind Odysseus’ crew as they beg for forgiveness. As the sirens drag them off to ...

Matt Damon is Odysseus in Christopher Nolan’s epic Odysseus’ encounters with the Cyclops Polyphemus, the witch-goddess Circe, and the Sirens are central to the story.