Epic Cycle

“A Beautiful Penelope and a Captivating Odysseus” – this was the scene at the press conference following the premiere of The Return, directed by Uberto Pasolini. Inspired by Homer’s myth, the film stars Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche as the mythic figures Odysseus and Penelope reimagined through a modern lens.

The result is evidence of the exact dates for events recorded in the epics

The National Theater of Northern Greece presents an epic online production of the big epic itself, with 38 actors from its respected ensemble rendering Homer's "Odyssey" in its respective rhapsodies, in a series of 24 podcasts running through February 26 on its website (ntng.gr) and at soundcloud.com/ntngreece.

"It is so good to be home. This is a picture of my nostos," tweeted University of Pennsylvania classical studies professor Emily Wilson on May 13, attaching a photographs of her two daughters. She had clearly missed her family during her lengthy tour of Great Britain and Australia to promote her critically acclaimed translation of Homer's "Odyssey."

A routine transaction with the Greek civil service can easily develop into an odyssey of irrationality. There is nothing original about this observation. The problems of the country's unreformed public administration have been swelling, albeit with fluctuations, for decades now.

The latest translation of Homer’s The Odyssey has been translated into English, and while it has been done so dozens of times since it first appeared in English in 1615, this is the first time it has been done by a woman.

Scientists and researchers of the University of Athens attempted once more to date the Homeric epics, Iliad and Odyssey, based on the study of natural phenomena which were described by Homer in his poems, in relation to the real, recorded scientific and astronomical phenomena.

Dzoni Stulic: I am fed up with music

Rock musician lives peaceful life with wife in a small town in Holland.

Branimir Stulic says for the Blic to have given up music and to have been now dedicated to translating old books.