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

During Lord Byron’s idealistic romp around Greece in the early 1820s, he stopped off at Ithaca, where the islanders showed him the ruins of an ancient site guaranteed to get a poet’s pulse racing: the ...

Even more provocatively, Bittlestone, who was able to draw upon sophisticated technological tools unavailable to scholars before him, believes that events like those described in the Odyssey may well ...

Mia Goth can't speak highly enough of The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan's upcoming Ancient Greek epic.

In place of Odysseus’s 20 years at sea, Joe Goodkin only needed a guitar to bring a fresh version of the Odyssey back to Ithaca. Musician Joe Goodkin performed Joe’s Odyssey, a modern western musical ...

Matt Damon and Anne Hathaway star as Odysseus and Penelope in the official trailer for Christopher Nolan's upcoming film "The ...

In a series of four virtual events, pairs of Ithaca-based writers have presented work on the theme of physical, intellectual or emotional odysseys in the monthly reading series Odysseys: Ithaca ...