The Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. What should have been a simple return became a decade of trials shaped by gods monsters and human mistakes.

You've heard of Odysseus. He was the Greek warrior-king who quite famously had the world's worst ever commute home from work, having spent a decade at war with Troy and then taken another decade to ...

When Penelope and Odysseus reunite after twenty years, the Odyssey ends as a love story with two protagonists who fought gods and demons.

The Greeks called him Odysseus; the Romans, Ulysses. He is the hero of “The Odyssey,” the Homeric epic of the 8th century BC, and he also plays an important role in Homer’s “Iliad.” A cool-headed, ...

Stand on top of the ruined towers of Troy on the Turkish coast, as I did this summer, and you can easily imagine yourself back in the world of the Iliad and the Odyssey. There, below you, is Homer's ...

Hermes begins the first of three stories about Odysseus. The stories cover the end of the Trojan War, Odysseus's meeting with the Cyclops and his final reunion with his wife and son. One day Zeus is ...

Did you do any research before taking the role? I did, quite heavily. Research is one of the joys of doing this job for me. I read the Iliad which is set at Troy, and I read The Odyssey which follows ...