Where Did Odysseus Really Travel to in Homer’s Odyssey?

Greek Reporter ^ | May 3, 2025 | Caleb Howells

[nickcarraway]

[PGalt]

Epic tale

[DIRTYSECRET]

How many years did hi wife wait for him to return-21?

If you believe that you’ll believe anything.

[BenLurkin]

Well, you see, there’s a port on a western bay, and it serves a hundred ships a day. Lonely sailors pass the time away and talk about their homes

[mowowie]

Had to read The Odyssey in HS.
No way i could do it....skipped it and took the D.
...And i was a big book reader at the time.

[nickcarraway]

And there’s a girl in this harbor town And she works layin’ whiskey down They say, “Brandy, fetch another round” She serves them whiskey and wine

[nickcarraway]

Which translation?

[nickcarraway]

Wasn’t there a Pauly Shore or Medea version you could have watched?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Watched this a few weeks ago. It was OK. Not sure if it was true to the poem. Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche were also in "The English Patient."

[RetiredTexasVet]

Traveled to an In-N-Out Burger in Ca.

[nickcarraway]

She was a loyal one.

[PGalt]

😂 Things were different back in the day.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

[BenLurkin]

A parallel to his wife whose name escapes me now, I think.

The wonderful character from fiction who knit a tapestry by day and unknit it by night.

[mowowie]

I have no idea....
Just Homer’s The Odyssey.
I had zero idea what i was reading.
I was like “screw this”..

[mowowie]

1985

[Psalm 73]

Funny you should ask - just started (re) reading The Odyssey, seeing it's been about 50+ years since I read it the first time (under duress).

So far, I'm not loving it.

But the only book I've ever started and never finished was Finnegan's Wake. Just awful.

[PGalt]

😂 Very good fast food burger. Read Odyssey in college. Had a great professor who was really into it.

[mowowie]

“Wasn’t there a Pauly Shore or Medea version you could have watched?”
lol
I was a public school student...had better things to do.
;)

[rellic]

One thing right off the bat!
“In the seventh century BCE, the Greek poet Homer wrote the Odyssey.”
Poets didn’t write, back then it was all told from memory.

Somebody later on wrote it down and as was tradition attributed the writings to the original story teller.
Not to themselves.

I love these stories and they inspired generations of people.
I checked my library and I still have the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Right next to Moby Dick!