It’s been a journey. (If you’re looking for my four-star review it’s here) After ten years laying siege to Troy, it takes Odysseus another decade to get home, to a palace where his wife and son have also in a way been besieged, though this time by a range of unwelcome suitors making the most… The ending of The Odyssey Read More
The Odyssey 4 stars
Odysseus’s ten-year journey to try to make it back home after the siege and sacking of Troy. The vainglorious Odysseus and his men turn tail and flee so often that as they legged it down the hill from the Cyclops’s cave I was half expecting him to shout “run away! run away!” while pursued by… The Odyssey Read More