Why we still care about the 'Odyssey'
July 17, 2026
July 17, 2026
CHICAGO, Illinois, July 17 -- The University of Chicago posted the following news:
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Why we still care about the 'Odyssey'
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"Tell me the story of a complicated man," opens Emily Wilson's translation of the Odyssey.
Odysseus, the epic's hero and complicated man in question, is returning home from the Trojan War when he is waylaid by the gods. For 10 years, the king of Ithaca endures shipwrecks, en . . .
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Why we still care about the 'Odyssey'
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"Tell me the story of a complicated man," opens Emily Wilson's translation of the Odyssey.
Odysseus, the epic's hero and complicated man in question, is returning home from the Trojan War when he is waylaid by the gods. For 10 years, the king of Ithaca endures shipwrecks, en . . .