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Hero or War Criminal? National Hellenic Museum Puts Odysseus on Trial

Greek Reporter 05 Mar 2026
Odysseus slays the suitors in his palace and returns to his beloved wife Penelope, who waited for him for twenty years ... While the Odyssey depicts Odysseus’ ... The trial of Odysseus is scheduled for 7 p.m.
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Is Homer the Grandson of Odysseus?

Greek Reporter 04 Mar 2026
Some ancient traditions boldly claim that Homer, grandson of Odysseus, inherited both the hero’s memory and his epic voice ... A striking story involves Homer and Odysseus ... Homer, it declared, descended from Ithaca, the legendary home of Odysseus.
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Telegony: Odysseus’ Forgotten Second Journey

Greek Reporter 03 Mar 2026
Odysseus slays the suitors in his palace and returns to his beloved wife Penelope who waited for him for twenty years ... The Greek hero Odysseus is most famous for his journey back to Ithaca after the Trojan War, as related in Homer’s�Odyssey.
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How Pets Shaped Daily Life in Ancient Greece and Rome

Greek Reporter 19 Feb 2026
In Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus returns to Ithaca after twenty years of absence ... In Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus returns to Ithaca after twenty years of absence to find his palace overrun by suitors.
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Why Did It Take Odysseus Ten Years to Return to Ithaca?

Greek Reporter 12 Feb 2026
This depicts just one of the challenges Odysseus faced on his journey back to Ithaca ... In the Ancient Greek epic The Odyssey, Odysseus takes ten years to return to his home on Ithaca after the Trojan War.
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Odysseus: A modern tale

Observer-Reporter 26 Jan 2026
But our adventure left me close to understanding how the 10-year voyage of Odysseus returning home to Ithaca after the Trojan War must have gone ... That decade was rough for Penelope, Odysseus’ wife, and Telemachus, his son.
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Is Homer’s Odyssey Based on Real Events?

Greek Reporter 13 Jan 2026
The�Odyssey, written by Homer in the seventh century BCE, tells the story of Odysseus attempting to get home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. The journey is a disaster, with Odysseus facing one terrible event after another.
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The Odyssey’s Matt Damon Reveals How Much Weight He Lost for Odysseus

Coming Soon 08 Jan 2026
Matt Damon, who underwent a significant physical transformation for his role as Odysseus in The Odyssey, discussed his weight loss for the part.
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Were the Odyssey’s Cyclopes Actually Minoans?

Greek Reporter 06 Jan 2026
According to Homer, while attempting to round Cape Maleas in Southern Greece, Odysseus and his fleet were blown far to the south by a powerful wind that lasted nine days ... From there, Odysseus resumed ...
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Odysseus the destroyer? Christopher Nolan’s new Odyssey adaptation revives an ancient moral question

The Conversation 05 Jan 2026
The intruders are protagonist Odysseus’s men, and the “monster” they attack is Polyphemus, a solitary giant shepherd later remembered only as a cyclops ... Odysseus responds with legendary cunning ... He has Odysseus reveal his name only after the escape.
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If Greeks Went Woke, the World Would Go Broke

Greek City Times 27 Dec 2025
In an world* increasingly obsessed with “cultural appropriation,” trigger ...
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Odysseus Is Christopher Nolan’s Latest Sad Dad

New York Magazine 23 Dec 2025
... it’s worth), you probably know the story of Odysseus, the Trojan War’s master strategist for whom getting home from the front took literally forever ... Odysseus Is Christopher Nolan’s Latest Sad Dad.
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