Is there any evidence that the Odyssey is based on real events, or is it just a fictional story invented by Homer?

For millennia, the epic poems of Homer have profoundly shaped Western literature and thought with their timeless tales of heroism, gods and the enduring human spirit. While The Iliad plunges us into ...

THE kinship of Iliad and Odyssey can never be denied. Despite microscopic dissimilarities which have been noted, the dialect, the metre, and, we may add, with reasonable allowance for the difference ...

THE ancients had, for the most part, an unquestioning belief in one Homer, who wrote — or at least composed — both the Iliad and the Odyssey, and indeed many minor poems as well, in the same literal ...

Odysseus is a liar. There is no question about it in classical literature, that Homer’s archetypal hero is a fork-ongued liar. Sometimes he lies to save his own skin, other times he uses lies as a ...

“A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling,” Nietzsche once wrote, meaning that laughter requires a high degree of intellectual hardness. One could also say that an ideology is an epigram on the ...

Homer’s The Odyssey isn’t just an ancient story—it’s the blueprint for Western literature. Written in the 8th century BCE and set in a mythic version of Greece, this epic poem weaves together history, ...

Homer's Iliad has a vast cast of characters. Many of these names are less familiar to mainstream audiences than mighty ...