One of the Odyssey's most important lessons comes when Odysseus and his men encounter the Cyclops Polyphemus.At first the situation does not seem dangerous. They land on an island, discover a large cave filled with food and livestock, and begin helping themselves. Odysseus says they should stay and wait for the owner of the cave, because he expects the man to follow the Greek custom of hospitality. In the ancient world a traveler could rely on that custom almost anywhere.Instead, something very

A powerful scene in the Odyssey comes when Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca after twenty years of war and wandering.You'd expect the story to end with a great celebration: with the hero coming home and the family reunited.Homer does something far stranger.Odysseus arrives disguised as a beggar, because Athena warns him that the palace has been taken over by more than a hundred suitors who have been living there for years, eating his food, drinking his wine, and pressuring his wife Penelope to

To all those who are angry at a black casting of the Odyssey,1) the Greeks themselves said ALL their gods came from Black Africa. 2) the odyssey itself is full of references to the gods being black. With the main deity Zeus, LITERALLY being called the “ETHIOP”. Meaning the black. So in fact, Europeans are the ones that have stealing the roles of Black Greek gods, for decades. This doesn’t mean that all Greeks were black and that all periods of Greeks were black, but it does mean that at the time

The Odyssey (1997) - Movie