How does a cycle of violence perpetuate itself? And what exactly did Penelope, Odysseus’ wife, do over the 20-year span when her husband was off sacking Troy and taking on those monsters?

Telemachus (Odysseus’ son), Penelope (Odysseus’ wife), Athena, Circe, Poseidon and Zeus are all major characters.

Odysseus (J. Chinoy), Alexandros (N. Bhosale) 2-2, 1600/1-48, 1400/1-34, 1200/1-20, 1000/1-6, 800/53, 600/40. Former responded well to the urgings and finished six lengths ahead.

Penelope spends most of the 24 books of Homer’s “Odyssey” waiting. While her husband, Odysseus, spends two decades fighting in the Trojan War, then outsmarting sirens, sea monsters ...

Meanwhile, a band of suitors are trying to take over Odysseus' kingdom on Ithaca, supplanting his son Telemachus and convincing Penelope to marry one of them. In a dramatic conclusion, Odysseus ...

Christopher Nolan isn’t known to do anything by halves, and for his latest movie, The Odyssey, he’s taking his crew to the real-life location that Homer supposedly imagined Odysseus visited ...

The melody of the chorus is so moving I can physically feel my heart strings being plucked. On my first listen, when Penelope asked Odysseus what he had done to get home, I said out loud, “Girl, you ...

There are dark allusions to threats of sexual assault in this song, demonstrating how this saga didn’t shy away from darker aspects of Penelope’s predicament. Here, Odysseus makes his entrance, having ...

While Hamill’s retelling changes elements, she doesn’t take away from the adventure of Odysseus’ journey; rather, she expands on it. “You also get the consequences of that war on Penelope and the ...