A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY: AN IDIOT’S GUIDE TO READING THE ODYSSEY
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Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of the ancient Greek epic has sparked a new appetite for an old classic. Here are the translations, podcasts and audiobooks that make the Homeric world more approachable The Odyssey was once all Greek to me.
I struggled to keep up with the characters, the mass of heroes and villains, the swarms of sons and daughters. I found the Homeric formula – repeated stock phrases passed down from the oral tradition – confusing and tiring. The prose in my 1946 EV Rieu translation, revised by his son DCH Rieu, felt laboured and laborious.
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- Topic: CULTURE — the feed headline centres on VOYAGE, DISCOVERY, IDIOT, GUIDE, READING.
- Original feed: Culture | The Guardian.
- Published: 16 Jul 2026, 13:45 UK.
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- Culture | The Guardian: Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of the ancient Greek epic has sparked a new appetite for an old classic.
- Culture | The Guardian: Here are the translations, podcasts and audiobooks that make the Homeric world more approachable The Odyssey was once all Greek to me.
- Culture | The Guardian: I struggled to keep up with the characters, the mass of heroes and villains, the swarms of sons and daughters.
- Culture | The Guardian: I found the Homeric formula – repeated stock phrases passed down from the oral tradition – confusing and tiring.
- Culture | The Guardian: The prose in my 1946 EV Rieu translation, revised by his son DCH Rieu, felt laboured and laborious.
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