July 29, 2024 |  Genres:  Mythology   Literature  

The Odyssey

If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces, during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance.

My favorite between Homer's epics. The Odyssey is a quintessential story of adventure and the human will, and its a remarkable accomplishment in literature for how old it is. One of my all time favorites.