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Small 1,700-year-old fragment of Odyssey found tucked in Dutch library book

Parchment describes the exact moment Helios finds out Odysseus’s men ate his ‘immortal’ cow

The Independent UK · Sep 17

The AI writing debate is eerily similar to the one that rocked ancient Greece 2,700 years ago

Theater scholar Drew Lichtenberg explained the backlash to Euripides, a playwright that people found "creepy and scary, the way people do with AI."

Fortune · Sep 10

Post your questions for actor and musician Samantha Morton

As the reader interview goes to Green Man festival, tell us what you would like to ask the garlanded British artist, fresh from her turn as Circe in The Odyssey

The Guardian - UK · Aug 17

The Odyssey's women deserve their own epic - with loyalty, seduction, and modern dilemmas that never go out of style

The Odyssey is misunderstood as just a bloodbath, it tackles distant marriage, what it means to be a wife, and so much more

Woman & Home · Aug 2

In Homer’s epic, a bold princess helps Odysseus home – but not in Nolan’s film. Who is Nausicaa?

In Homer’s Odyssey, Nausicaa is a tall, gutsy teenage princess who finds a naked and helpless Odysseus washed up on her shore, gives him her brothers’ clothing, and instructs him on how to appeal to her mother, Queen Arete, for help to get home to Ithaca. She is crucial to…

The Conversation · Jul 31

Why has Christopher Nolan got rid of all the sex in The Odyssey?

It’s a bit of a mystery why it takes Odysseus so long to get home if he’s not shacking up with Calypso and others, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK · Jul 28

Christopher Nolan says he had to change The Odyssey ending from the "grim" original poem

Christopher Nolan explains why he changed The Odyssey's ending from the poem

Total Film · Jul 27

Elon Musk vows to make ‘historically accurate’ AI version of The Odyssey

The tech mogul has been criticising Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey for months and said the director had ‘lost his integrity’ over some of the casting choices

The Independent UK · Jul 23

Christopher Nolan's no CGI rule on The Odyssey applied even to the pig scene, and the way they brought it to life is genius

The Odyssey's most shocking scene was created practically using pig animatronics

Total Film · Jul 22

Samantha Morton felt Heath Ledger comparison was 'bittersweet'

The Odyssey actress Samantha Morton found it "bittersweet" to be compared to the late Heath Ledger.

BANG Premier · Jul 20