The Odyssey Odyssey

<p>Send a text</p><p><b>IN WHICH:</b> Our hero seeks hospitality in The Wrong Cave. We meet everyone's favorite mythological monster: Polyphemus the Cyclops, whose appetites are as shocking as his social skills.</p>

<p>Send a text</p><p>IN WHICH: We hear the complete poem "The Lotos-eaters" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.</p>

<p>Send a text</p><p><b>IN WHICH:</b> Odysseus himself takes over the narrative and decides to begin at the beginning. He recounts the departure of his twelve ships with 600 men from the ruins of Troy to an audience...

<p>Send a text</p><p><b>IN WHICH</b>: we delve into the life and stories of Hephaestus, the god of fire, bearer of culture, architect and blacksmith to the gods. The child of dysfunctional immortals, he struggles to...

<p>Send a text</p><p><b>IN WHICH: </b>Odysseus is entertained by the rhapsode Demodacus, who is inspired to tell our hero his own story. An athletic competition gives rise to tension, which another story dispels. The...

<p>Send a text</p><p>IN WHICH: Odysseus casts an epic gaze over the palace of King Alcinous and Queen Arete, who demonstrate their hospitality and provide our hero with hope.<br/><br/><b>VISUAL FOOTNOTES FOR THIS...

<p>Send a text</p><p>IN WHICH: We explore the lineage of King Alcinous, Odysseus's host, tracing his family line back to the notorious and ill-fated race of Giants.</p>

<p>Send a text</p><p><b>IN WHICH:</b> We return from an unexpected hiatus with a "party piece" - a performance of an excerpt from Alexander Pope's 1726 verse translation of The Odyssey, Book V.</p>

<p>Send a text</p><p>IN WHICH: Odysseus is rescued by a young princess engaged in pursuits of domestic management. Athena returns him to a state of manly elegance, and the princess promises him a speedy return to his...

<p>Send a text</p><p><b>IN WHICH:</b> Odysseus uses guile and deceit to attain The Bow of Heracles from Philoctetes, the man he betrayed and abandoned ten years before.<br/><br/>Watch a video of "The Speckled Bull" - an...

<p>Send a text</p><p>IN WHICH: We recount the Roman story of the Achilleid, detailing how the immortal nymph Thetis tried to protect her all-too-mortal son Achilles from the perils of the Trojan War and how "wily...

<p>Send a text</p><p><b>IN WHICH </b>we explore the most repeated poetic line in all of the Odyssey and learn the tragic story of Eos, goddess of the dawn, who kindled the wrath of Aphrodite and was cursed ever after to...

<p>Send a text</p><p><b>IN WHICH</b> we encounter our hero, Odysseus, as the coddled prisoner of the sea nymph Calypso in her island hermitage. Hermes, the reluctant ambassador of Zeus, liberates the captive, who flees...

<p>Send a text</p><p><b>IN WHICH:</b> We delve into what may be the least understood episode of the Trojan War: that horse. How could the Trojans be so foolish as to bring that horse into their city? Homer doesn't have...

<p>Send a text</p><p><b>IN WHICH </b>we considered what married life is like when a husband and wife are reunited after a ten-year long war waged over the wife's infidelity. Menelaus and Helen both remember their...