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The Odyssey

She wrote a first draft of a stage adaptation in and followed it with a virtual workshop in The American Repertory Theater will feature a free live reading of that adaptation at p. Dating back to the seventh century B. Along the way he faces a giant cyclops, half-bird, half-woman sirens and a tentacled sea monster called the Scylla. I thought it was so cool, fun and great. This three-act adaptation opens a conversation about surviving trauma, the shared roles men and women play during wartime and how embracing forgiveness can end cycles of violence. Hamill says workshops for the epic never fail to draw parallels to contemporary conflicts — as long as there is violence in the world, the Odyssey will be relevant.

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From Anansi, the spider of West African folklore, to Loki, the shape-shifter of Norse mythology, tricksters are some of the most entertaining characters in stories all over the world. Neither the strongest, the fleetest, nor the best looking, the tricksters triumph through their brains, not their brawn. Odysseus first appears in another work attributed to Homer, The Iliad , which tells the story of a feud between Achilles and Agamemnon during the year war between the Greeks and Trojans.

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Both the Illiad and the Odyssey are some of the greatest, and oldest works of the Western world. While the Illiad is about the Trojan War and the famed Greek hero and warrior Achilles, the Odyssey focuses on the king of Ithaca's journey home after the war. Taking place after the battle of Troy, the Odyssey shares the trials and tribulations of a king who has been gone from his land and family for twenty years.

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Why has it taken 3,000 years for a woman to translate Homer's Odyssey into English?

USA - EN. So why is it that the first English version from a female translator has only just been published? Professional translation of The Odyssey is nothing new.

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