The Lotus Eaters: The Most Dangerous People in the Odyssey Never Threatened Anyone
The monsters in the Odyssey are straightforward in their danger. The Cyclops traps Odysseus in a cave and eats his […]
Calypso: The Nymph Who Offered Odysseus Immortality and Was Refused
After the destruction of his ship and the death of his last surviving crew member, Odysseus drifted at sea for
Did the Trojan War Really Happen? What the Evidence Actually Shows
The story is one of the most famous in Western literature. A Greek fleet of a thousand ships sails to
Is the Odyssey a True Story? Was Odysseus Real?
Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of the Odyssey arrives in cinemas in July 2026 with Matt Damon as Odysseus and a
Scylla and Charybdis: The Two Monsters Between Whom No Ship Could Pass Safely
Circe’s advice to Odysseus about the passage between Scylla and Charybdis is one of the most brutally practical pieces of
The Sirens: Why the Most Famous Monsters in the Odyssey Were Never Mermaids
Almost everyone who knows the story of the Sirens pictures them the same way: beautiful women from the waist up,
Circe: The Goddess of Magic Who Turned Men Into Pigs and Then Helped Them Home
When Odysseus and his men arrived on the island of Aeaea, exhausted after the catastrophic encounter with the Laestrygonian giants
Krampus: The Alpine Devil Who Was Never Just About Christmas
Every December, greeting cards appear featuring a horned devil carrying a birch switch and a basket of naughty children, grinning
Fionn Mac Cumhaill: The Warrior-Poet Who Gained Wisdom by Accident
The Giant’s Causeway on the north Antrim coast is one of the most visited natural sites in Ireland, a formation
Black Shuck: The Phantom Dog of East Anglia and the Night It Walked Into a Church
On the morning of 4 August 1577, the Reverend Abraham Fleming sat down and wrote about what had happened the