Tag Archives: Odyssey

Cloud Cuckoo Land: The Power of Story

Doerr’s “Cloud Cuckoo Land” is testimony to the power of story to save us when we need saving.

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A Vet Sees Himself in Odysseus

In Huey’s poem, a veteran who has seen combat frames his experience in terms of “The Odyssey.”

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Homer, Virgil, Dante and the Afterlife

Literary afterlives, such as we encounter in Homer, Virgil, and Dante, are as much about this world as the next.

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How Lit Inspires Courage and Love

Fletcher in “Masterworks” argues that epic narrative can boost courage and lyric disclosure can do the same for love.

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First They Came for Toni Morrison, Then…

In the right attacks Toni Morrison novels, does this mean that Homer, Dostoevsky, Milton, and Sophocles are next?

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Saving the Classics from Ideologues

A Univ. of Chicago classicist fears the alt-right will appropriate the classics for their own ends.

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Homer, Virgil & Dante Visit the Afterlife

In my Representative Masterpieces course, I conclude with Dante’s “Inferno,” where we see sinners creating their own hells.

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Homer’s Use of the Agamemnon Story

The Agamemnon story is alluded to multiple times in “Odyssey,” each time with a different slant dependent on the teller’s needs.

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Penelope Underrated (Like Many Mothers)

In an inspiring essay, a student draws on a long overdue appreciation of her mother to explore Penelope’s heroism in “The Odyssey.”

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