Tag: #odyssey

Classics in the News

Every holiday season, my mother gifts each of our family members an ornament that points back to some major moment in their year (e.g. an “I’d Smoke That” ornament for the person who started smoking meat this year). Reflecting over the 2024 year for the MCA, I think I would gift this group a Saturn planet ornament. Saturn, as in… Read more →

Classics in the News

2024 might be the year of Odysseus. Last Friday saw the release of The Return, a new cinematic re-telling of the ending of the Odyssey. It is still playing in theaters across Maine (Waterville and Falmouth to name some). Coming out on December 21st is Gwyneth Lesley’s book Odette’s Vow, a story of the Iliad and Odyssey from the perspective… Read more →