The Odyssey

Ancient Greece In Modern Chicago!?

Posted 02.24.2012

Read More: The Odyssey, Mortals, Toga, Greece, Kids Museum, Ancient Greece, Rome, Ancient Greek History, National Hellenic Museum, Trojan Horse, Family Museum, Myths, Gods, Arts News

Do you feel as if you were born in the wrong era? Do you watch "Hercules" on repeat? Act out "The Odyssey" by yourself? Have too much fun at toga part...

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In Praise of the Novella

Dave Astor | Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: The Odyssey, Edith Wharton, John Steinbeck, Novellas, The Time Machine, A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, Margaret Atwood, Billy Budd, Herman Melville, h.g. Wells, The Penelopiad, Carson McCullers, Ethan Frome, Books News

A novella can be read in only a few hours, yet the best ones pack almost the same punch as much longer works of fiction.

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Art and Adventure: A Manifesto for Women and Grrrls

Mary Pauline Lowry | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Odysseus, The Odyssey, Bikini Kill, Amanda Hocking, Kathleen Hanna, Legends of the Fall, Twilight, Nicki Minaj, Ani DiFranco, Mary Pauline Lowry, Shauna Cross, Mary Lowry, The Alchemist, Paul Coelho, Righteous Babe Records, Women News

We as women and girls can't just demand more interesting and engaging female characters. We have waited too long already. We have to write the books and -- if necessary -- publish them ourselves.

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WATCH: Sassy Gay Friend Goes Greek

Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: The Odyssey, Homosexuality, Video, Gay Friend, Greek Mythology, Homer, Mythology, Gay, Myths, Sassy Gay Friend, Comedy News

Sassy Gay Friend is back, and this time he's coming to the rescue of Odysseus from Homer's "The Odyssey." It seems that the book could have been a who...

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PHOTOS Bloomsday 2011: What Will People Be Doing This Year To Celebrate?

Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: The Odyssey, James Joyce, Joyce, Bloomsday 2011, Ulysses, James Joyce Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus, Modern Novels, Bloomsday, Leopold Bloom, Books News

Every year on June 16th, James Joyce lovers celebrate Bloomsday to commemorate his modernist masterpiece "Ulysses." "Ulysses" chronicles a day, June 1...

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Classic Book Covers Get Artistic Makeovers

flavorwire.com | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Velveteen Rabbit, The Odyssey, Classic Book Covers, Book Covers, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Jane Austen, American Psycho, Classic Books, Pride and Prejudice, Robert Louis Stevenson, Books News

For the past seven years, Katie Cromwell and Jensen Carp at Gallery 1988 have been showcasing pop culture-themed artwork to a new generation of LA res...

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Better Book Titles For Greek Classics: What 'The Odyssey' SHOULD Have Been Titled

Dan Wilbur | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Greek Classics, Homer, Virgil, Plato, The Odyssey, Sophocles, Euripedes, Slidepollajax, Aenid, Symposium, Oedipus the King, Epic of Gilgamesh, Medea, The Iliad, Antigone, Books News

Whether you dabbled in Euripides during college, or spend hours each day reciting Homer in the original Greek, these new titles will trim the fat and reveal whole stories in a single image!

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Favorite Rereads: What Do You Come Back To Time And Time Again? (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: The Odyssey, 1984, Ernest Hemingway, Books We Love, George Orwell, Homer, Ray Bradbury, Gone With the Wind, Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Middlesex, Harry Potter, Slidepollajax, To Kill a Mockingbird, Rereads, Jeffrey Eugenides, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News

Author François Mauriac once said, "Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are' is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what ...

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A Computer Won Jeopardy, But Can A Computer Write Literature?

slate.com | John Swansburg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Odyssey, Jeopardy, Odysseus, Zachary Mason, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, Jeopardy IBM Challenge, Books News

Around this time last year, I reviewed Zachary Mason's The Lost Books of the Odyssey. The conceit of the novel is that it's actually a translation of ...

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Blessed Are Those Who Enter: Sukkot, Hospitality and Home

Angela Himsel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Odyssey, Sukkah, Sukkot, Hospitality, Judaism, Religion News

Sukkot is the holiday that most centers around guests and emphasizes hospitality. This is ironic since a sukkah is a temporary dwelling, not one's home at all.

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So Many Selves, So Little Time

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.17.2011

President Obama is a Kenyan or a Muslim -- or a Kenyan Muslim -- masquerading as an American Christian. The Dalai Lama is an undercover Nazi agent. Ma...

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Top 10 Seafaring Tales

The Guardian | Carsten Jensen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Edgar Allan Poe, Moby Dick, The Odyssey, Seafaring Books, Carsten Jensen, Victor Hugo, Joseph Conrad, Books, We the Drowned, Robert Louis Stevenson, Books News

"Given that men have sailed the seas for thousands of years, it's perhaps surprising how few great works of literature have been inspired by the seafa...

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On Sloth And Other Virtues

Amy Hertz | Posted 07.03.2011

Read More: The Odyssey, Sloth, Arianna's Reading, Homer, Slow Movement, Donald Trump, Meditation, Buddhism, Slow, Books News

This month, we're celebrating Carl Honore's In Praise of Slowness and throughout The Huffington Post you'll have a chance to see how others are embracing the Slow Movement, of which Carl is the godfather.

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How Stories Save Us

Pam Allyn | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Parenting, Madeline, Kids, Children's Books, Children, Homer, Goodnight Moon, Books, Eloise, The Odyssey, Story Time, Story Telling, Where the Wild Things Are, Stories, Reading, Healthy Living News

Here is the longing inside all of us: that we are fearless enough to embark upon those adventures, but that as we go we are inspired and propelled by a sense of home waiting for us at the other end.

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Sing Any Good Books Lately?

Laurence Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Odyssey, Jack Kerouac, Frankenstein, Books, Bram Stoker, Sting, David Gray, Music, Kate Bush, The Beatles, Edgar Allen Poe, Classics Rock, Wuthering Heights, Ulysses, Jackson Browne, Harold Robbins, Alan Parsons, Elliott Murphy, Books News

The mission of my blog is to highlight popular songs that are based on, inspired by, or allude to books and authors -- "Books Shelved in Songs," as I say on the site.

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Awakening America's Heart: Are You Going To Finish Strong?

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Dismemberment, The Odyssey, Difficult Circumstances, Way of Transformation, Authentic Nature, The Inner Life, The Balanced Life, Featured Contributor, Video, Healthy Living News

So much for well-laid plans! The response from last week's article, (see archives: "Choosing Hope over Fear"), was so compelling, that I've decided t...

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Slumdog Millionaire's Danny Boyle on Storytelling

Gotham Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Storytelling, Slumdog Millionaire Best Picture, Film, Danny Boyle Slumdog Millionaire, Slumdog Millionaire, Movies, The Odyssey, History, Epic Storytelling, Filmmaking and Activism, Activism, Middle East Conflict, Pakistan India Relations, Oral History, Entertainment News

If there is one thing we might learn from great filmmaking, as with Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, it is that through our stories we have the ability to inspire, lead, and transform.

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The Reader is a Surprising Film: Nazis Can Be Sympathetic, Though Not Forgiven

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011

On the whole David Hare has written a fascinating and engrossing script, and Director Stephen Daldry has given us a taut and emotional filmmaking achievement.

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