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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Sachsen-Odyssey/pages/001-chapterhead/

Another engraving from Homer’s Odyssey. Seems like a good time for them :-)

This time i included the border, which is also used for the full-page illustrations.

Can you tell me more about what’s going on here? This is at the start of the poem. See Web page for my uninformed guesses :-)

#vintageEngraving #vintageArt #fobo #Homer #Odysseus #Odysee #Odyssey #ancientGreece #chapterHead #engraving

‘A towering piece of monoculture’: how The Odyssey discourse has dominated this summer https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/01/the-odyssey-movie-discourse #TheOdyssey #ChristopherNolan #ActionAndAdventureFilms #Homer #Books #Culture #Film

‘A towering piece of monoculture’: how The Odyssey discourse has dominated this summer
By Jesse Hassenger

Christopher Nolan’s smash hit epic has continued to excite and enrage everyone from rightwingers to academics, an old-fashioned throwback to a uniting big-screen event

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/01/the-odyssey-movie-discourse

#TheOdyssey #ChristopherNolan #Actionandadventurefilms #Homer #Books #Culture #Film #TheGuardian #JesseHassenger

The Odyssey and cake are a winning combination | Letter
By Guardian Staff

Carol Ross is part of a group of women who meet regularly to read the classics. She says the works have cemented friendships and enhanced lives

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jul/31/the-odyssey-and-cake-are-a-winning-combination

#Homer #TheOdyssey #Classics #Books #Film #Culture #DanteAlighieri #UKnews #TheGuardian #GuardianStaff

Love this idea of no one #Homer.

> The poem could even have taken shape by committee. In the late 6th century BCE, Pisistratus, tyrant of Athens, mandated the annual performance of the entire Iliad and Odyssey at a festival celebrating the goddess Athena.
>
> It takes about 20 hours to read the Odyssey aloud: too much for one voice. [...] Some scholars argue the festival fixed many songs about Odysseus into a single, canonical #Odyssey, and perhaps even a script [...].

https://theconversation.com/who-was-homer-author-of-the-odyssey-287969

The dog who waited for Odysseus: Argos reflects the deep human‑animal bonds of ancient Greece

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://interaksyon.philstar.com/trends-spotlights/2026/07/31/317211/the-dog-who-waited-for-odysseus-argos-reflects-the-deep-human%e2%80%91animal-bonds-of-ancient-greece/

This week on #CurrentlyReading with Book Notification while checking out #Stonehenge and #TedLasso...

📖 #TheOdyssey by #Homer
📖 Denied Access by #DonBentley
🎧 You First by #CarolineKepnes

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So 'The Odyssey' is trending right now and I'll just take that as an advantage to push 'EPIC: The Musical' in more people's faces, because it's a masterpiece 🙂‍↕️💕

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#TheOdyssey #EpicTheMusical #Homer #Music #ShareYourMusic

Laestrygonians: a tribe of man-eating giants, said to have sprung from Laestrygon, son of Poseidon. They destroyed eleven of Odysseus' twelve ships by hurling rocks from the cliffs. #Odyssey #Homer #epic #film #Nolan

Illustration by John Flaxman for the Odyssey (1810).
#Homer #epic #film #Nolan

Laestrygonians: a tribe of man-eating giants, said to have sprung from Laestrygon, son of Poseidon. They destroyed eleven of Odysseus' twelve ships by hurling rocks from the cliffs. #Odyssey #Homer #epic #film #Nolan

Handy Guide to the death count in The Odyssey.
#Homer #epic #film #Nolan

Joyce Carol Oates slams Emily Wilson over viral ‘Odyssey’ takedown

Days after a classicist who translated Homer’s “The Odyssey” in 2017 eviscerated the Christopher Nolan film based on…
#NewsBeep #News #Topstories #dailyglobaltitlesale #EmilyWilson #Film #Headlines #HOMER #JoyceCarolOates #oates #Odyssey #originaltext #poem #review #teamnolan #TopStories #Translation #version #wilson #year
https://www.newsbeep.com/669393/

One big chart: deaths in the Odyssey
By Nick Evershed

Would you rather be eaten by a Cyclops or fall off a roof and break your neck? Here’s how the plucky adventurers perish during the course of the story

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/30/the-odyssey-deaths-chart-data-visualisation

#TheOdyssey #Homer #Books #Film #Culture #TheGuardian #NickEvershed

Joyce Carol Oates Defends Christopher Nolan & ‘The Odyssey’ Against Emily Wilson, Other Critics
#Culture #News #ChristopherNolan #EmilyWilson #Homer #TheOdyssey

https://deadline.com/2026/07/joyce-carol-oates-defends-christopher-nolan-the-odyssey-1237012755/

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#meme #memes #Simpsons #Homer #health #sleep #cartoon #relatable

https://fromoldbooks.org/r/5j/pages/000-frontispiece-image-withdrawal-from-troy/

and cover and title page at https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Sachsen-Odyssey/

Bought Homer’s Odyssey (cheaply) in Germany in 2019 on a GIMP meetup. Maybe it’s a good time to post some scans :-) The bookseller turned quite hostile when i mentioned the Web, said the Web was putting him out of business.

#homer #odysseus #Odyssey #vintageEngraving #vintageArt #fobo #greekMyth #bookCover #GIMP

OUCH! The Translator of #TheOdyssey Just Slammed #ChristopherNolan’s Movie

“I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script,” wrote #EmilyWilson, the first woman to translate The Odyssey into English.

By Josh OsmanPublished: Jul 27, 2026 1:20 PM EDT

Excerpt: "Throughout her piece, the scholar notes that no adaptation should necessarily follow an original exactly. (In fact, she praises some radically reinterpretations of The Odyssey, including #MargaretAtwood's #Penelopiad, #MadelineMiller's #Circe, and other literary classics that riff off the text, including those of #Euripides, #JohnMilton, and #JamesJoyce.)"

Read more:
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a73274736/emily-wilson-christopher-nolan-odyssey-review/

#ClassicsBookClub #Classics #Movies #Homer #AncientGreece #ReadABook

For anyone in a tl;dr state of mind, @TheJournal has a decent synopsis here:

"'Abysmal writing' and 'no sex': Odyssey translator's scathing review of Christopher Nolan film"

https://www.thejournal.ie/emily-wilson-odyssey-review-7115521-Jul2026/

#EmilyWilson #LRB #Homer #TheOdyssey #ChristopherNolan #Film #GreekMythology

Oh my god, this review of "The Odyssey," by Emily Wilson - who has translated Homer's original into English - is BRRRRRRRUTAL. The mere mortal Nolan is BODIED. Wilson, a god on earth, SLAYS.

and so on.

Read it, and have a giggle:

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n14/emily-wilson/an-uncomplicated-man

h/t @TheJournal

#EmilyWilson #LRB #Homer #TheOdyssey #ChristopherNolan #film #GreekMythology

In case anyone’s interested: I can still recite the beginning of the #Odyssey from memory. In Ancient Greek. 😎 🤓

#Homer

Why has Christopher Nolan got rid of all the sex in The Odyssey? | Zoe Williams https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/28/christopher-nolan-sex-the-odyssey #TheOdyssey #Film #Culture #Homer

Why has Christopher Nolan got rid of all the sex in The Odyssey? | Zoe Williams
By Zoe Williams

It’s a bit of a mystery why it takes Odysseus so long to get home if he’s not shacking up with Calypso and others ...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/28/christopher-nolan-sex-the-odyssey

#TheOdyssey #Film #Culture #Homer #TheGuardian #ZoeWilliams

Epic review by Emily Wilson on whose translation Nolan's version is based. Blewski's effervescent wi excitement re this piece

'I had hoped that Nolan’s affinity with these Homeric themes might push him to new creative heights, and enable him to conjure more believable characters. But *The Odyssey* features his usual combination of grandiosity and superficiality'

#cinema #homer #odyssey #film #culture

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n14/emily-wilson/an-uncomplicated-man

A quotation from Homer

The recklessness of their ways destroyed them all.
 
[Αὐτῶν γὰρ σφετέρῃσιν ἀτασθαλίῃσιν ὄλοντο.]

Homer (fl. 7th-8th C. BC) Greek author
The Odyssey [Ὀδύσσεια], Book 1, l. 7ff (1.7) (c. 700 BC) [tr. Fagles (1996)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/homer/46491/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #homer #odyssey #consequence #death #destruction #divinejudgment #folly #incaution #punishment #recklessness