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The Odyssey effect
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- Discover how one 3,000-year-old story shaped the books we read, the movies we watch, the games we play, and our very idea of what it means to be a hero. Homer's Odyssey is one of the greatest adventure stories ever told. Filled with shipwrecks, monsters, gods, temptation, cunning, and one man's desperate struggle to return home, it has captivated audiences for nearly three thousand years. But the story of Odysseus did far more than survive. It became a blueprint for storytelling itself. In The Odyssey Effect, classicist Erica Stevenson reveals the astonishing influence of Homer's epic across centuries of art and culture, from Ancient Greece to the Renaissance and from James Joyce and Margaret Atwood to Hollywood, Broadway, television, and video games. As a new generation prepares to encounter the story through Christopher Nolan's highly anticipated film adaptation, discover how artists and storytellers have continually reinvented The Odyssey to explore our deepest ideas about heroism, identity, power, temptation, loyalty, and home. Richly illustrated, engaging, and accessible, The Odyssey Effect traces the epic's extraordinary cultural journey through: Iconic literary retellings by Dante, Cervantes, Tennyson, James Joyce, and othersFilm, television, and theatrical adaptations, from the Coen Brothers to The Simpsons and SpongeBob SquarePantsCenturies of art, philosophy, theater, music, and popular cultureModern retellings that challenge and reimagine who gets to be the heroThe enduring themes that continue to make this ancient story feel startlingly relevant today Perfect for lovers of Greek mythology, ancient history, classic literature, pop culture, and modern mythological retellings, The Odyssey Effect reveals why we keep returning to the same ancient story and what each new interpretation tells us about the culture that created it. Homer's epic is not simply a relic of the ancient world. It is a living story that continues to shape how we tell stories, understand heroes, and imagine the journey home.
- About The Author
- Erica Stevenson (@moaninc) is a London-born historian who earned a BA in Classical Civilization from New York University. Her mission to make ancient history accessible led her to create MoAn Inc. (or MOdern ANcients), a YouTube channel garnering over a million views, which aims to promote the wider conversation of classics by offering breakdowns of ancient texts, book by book, as well as in-depth discussions with professors, fiction writers, and independent scholars. Stevenson has appeared on several history and pop culture podcasts and has been featured in a number of articles. She hopes to encourage more people to engage with the ancient world in vibrant and new ways.Paul Cartledge graduated with Double First Class Honours from Oxford University in 1969. He has held tenured teaching posts in Classics and Ancient Greek History at the New University of Ulster, Trinity College Dublin, Warwick University, and (1979-2014) Cambridge University. From 2008 to 2014 he was Cambridge's inaugural A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture. He is now the A.G. Leventis Senior Research Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge. He holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Thessaly, Thessaloniki and Warwick. He is a Commander of the Order of Honour (Hellenic Republic) and the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of over thirty books, most recently Democracy: A Life (Oxford University Press) and Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece (Picador). His biography of Pericles will be published in 2026 (Reaktion Books).
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781577158981
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Epic Ink Books, (25 June 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 232
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 21 mm
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