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Homer

November 2025

  • Odyssey, Iliad books and the Ashes urn

    Guardian Sport Network
    Why Ashes series are every bit as epic as The Odyssey and The Iliad

  • Matt Damon in the Odyssey

    Epic movie: Christopher Nolan uses 2m ft of film for adaptation of The Odyssey

October 2025

  • Natalie Haynes.

    The books of my life
    Natalie Haynes: ‘I’ll never read anything by a Brontë again’

    The author and comedian on the immortal lines of Snoopy, discovering the heart of Homer’s Iliad and her culinary comfort read

September 2025

  • Troy at Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, September 2025. Written by Tom Wright – renowned for his awe-inspiring adaptations The Odyssey, Oedipus and Women of Troy – and directed by Ian Michael (Picnic at Hanging Rock, Stolen), this is the legend of Troy like you’ve never seen it before. A powerhouse ensemble cast will take to a transformed theatre to deliver the most physically demanding and hauntingly poetic performance of their lives under the eyes of the Trojan horse.

    Troy review – this fresh Australian take on Homer’s Iliad is a monumental triumph

    Malthouse, Melbourne
    Tom Wright’s production is the best thing Malthouse has produced in years: shocking, chilling, funny and often breathtakingly beautiful

July 2025

  • Interstellar - 2014<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Melinda Sue Gordon/Paramount/Warner Brothers/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock (5885451k) Christopher Nolan Interstellar - 2014 Director: Christopher Nolan Paramount/Warner Brothers USA On/Off Set Scifi

    First tickets to Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey sell out – a year before its 2026 release

    The blockbuster adaptation of Homer’s epic has not finished filming and has no official runtime. But super fans – and scalpers – already have seats

April 2025

  • Ralph Fiennes (Odysseus) and Juliette Binoche (Penelope) in The Return.

    The Return review – Ralph Fiennes’s Homeric hero finds his way home to outstanding Juliette Binoche

  • Ralph Fiennes

    Epic win: why the Odyssey is having a moment

  • Back from the dead … Ralph Fiennes in The Return.

    The Return review – Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes bring fierce class to elemental Odyssey adaptation

  • An artistic image recreated by Juanjo Ortega G. of the face of a bronze-age Mycenae woman who lived 3,500 years ago.

    ‘Peering into the eyes of the past’: reconstruction reveals face of woman who lived before Trojan war

March 2025

  • ‘He brings more to the role because of the life he’s lived’ … director Uberto Pasolini (right) on the set of The Return with Ralph Fiennes (Odysseus).

    ‘At 60, the bulk of your life is lived. What’s left now?’ Ralph Fiennes and Uberto Pasolini on their ripped and radical take on The Odyssey

  • Pat Barker.

    Audiobook of the week
    The Voyage Home by Pat Barker audiobook review – beware the grief of Clytemnestra

February 2025

  • On the set of Spartacus<br>American actor Kirk Douglas on the set of Spartacus, directed by Stanley Kubrick. (Photo by Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

    Week in geek
    Sandalheimer: can Christopher Nolan restore the grandeur of ancient-world epics?

    Once a prestige genre with lavish spectacle and global stars, it’s since grown pretty dusty and drear. But Nolan’s Odyssey may yet revive its bronzed vigour

January 2025

  • Trump

    Fee, fi, fo…Trump: how an ogre won back the White House

    Large, fearsome, gluttonous and cruel: Donald Trump is the archetypal ogre. So how did he manage to stomp back for a second term?

December 2024

  • Film director Christopher Nolan,

    Christopher Nolan’s next film announced as ‘mythic action epic’ The Odyssey

    The Oppenheimer director’s adaptation of Homer is scheduled for release in the summer of 2026, and will feature Tom Holland, Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway and Zendaya

November 2024

  • Clockwise from top left: Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor in Moulin Rouge!, John Turturro, George Clooney and Tim Blake Nelson in O Brother, Where Art Thou?; Danny Sapani as Jason and Helen McCrory as Medea: poet CP Cavafy; Joseph Fiennes as Troilus at the National Theatre.

    ‘We recognise it in this very primal way’: Stephen Fry, Brie Larson, Chris Ofili and more on why we can’t get enough of Greek mythology

    Love, death, grief, power, revenge: Greek tragedies get to the essence of the human experience. Here, writers and artists select their favourite plays, music and films inspired by ancient classics, from The Hunger Games to a Santana hit

October 2024

  • Stephen Fry poses for photographers upon arrival at the National Portrait Gallery Re-Opening on Tuesday, June 20, 2023 in London. (Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

    Book of the day
    Odyssey by Stephen Fry review – a jaunty version of Homer

    The last in Fry’s four-book retelling of the Greek myths is relatable and full of humour

September 2024

  • James Joyce

    James Joyce’s glorious lists and pop’s place at the Proms

    Letters: Mary Adams says nobody compiled lists in literature quite like the Irish novelist. Plus a letter from Dr Richard Carter

August 2024

  • Pat Barker.

    Book of the day
    The Voyage Home by Pat Barker review – a brilliant finale to the Trojan war trilogy

  • Samantha Harvey

    The Guardian view on list-making: a habit that is part of what makes us human

April 2024

  • Cerys Marie Burton, Shaka Kalokoh, Kimmy Edwards and Cash Holland in The Odyssey.

    The Odyssey: It’s a Really, Really, Really Long journey review – dynamic retelling of Homer for all ages

    Breathtaking set design and transportive music drive a family-friendly musical of the epic Greek myth
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