The Odyssey, the ancient Greek epic poem ascribed to the poet Homer, charts the return home of its eponymous hero, Odysseus.

It’s about a man who loses everything—his ships, his crew ... s rage and physical might, The Odyssey champions something else entirely: cunning. Odysseus wins with his brain, not his sword.

Like the Iliad, the Odyssey may have been ... around the Mediterranean world. Odysseus seems to have set out with more than 600 men in 12 "black" ships. All 12 eventually were wrecked.

After a day tour in beautiful Marseille, France, my adult daughter and I were hot and tired and headed straight for the ...

two tsunamis nearly swallow Cooper's ship. Athena, however, is a more subtle reference. In The Odyssey, she influences her father, Zeus, to help Odysseus, with Athena even taking a more hands-on ...

And in the midst of the cliff is a dim cave turned to Erebus, towards the place of darkness, whereby ye shall even steer your hollow ship, noble Odysseus. Not with an arrow from a bow might a man ...

First committed to writing around 750-650BC, The Odyssey tells the tale of the wily hero Odysseus and his homecoming ... around all these strange places by ship and meets all of these strange ...

Odysseus is coming to Scotland. Or at least, Scotland has turned up on the location list for Christopher Nolan’s version of The Odyssey ...

or potentially Eurylochus who appears in Homer’s Odyssey as second-in-command of Odysseus’ ship. Hermes, the messenger of the gods also makes an appearance in the Odyssey, so perhaps Elliot Page will ...

It is not quite the tableau recounted in The Odyssey – where some ... that an increasingly irritated Odysseus speaks of having to “force them back to the ships… though they wept bitterly”.

Athenian leaders (either Peisistratos or Solon) are also credited with instituting the “Panathenaic rule”, whereby the Iliad and the Odyssey had ... s Catalogue of Ships to argue that the ...