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Stanley Kubrick

2001: A Space Odyssey

“2001: A Space Odyssey” is an epic sci-fi film produced by Stanley Kubrick in 1968, which became a milestone in the development of fiction movies and world cinematography. The producer, inspired by the Homer’s epic “The Odyssey”, gave the film its name. Kubrick said: “It occurred to us that for the Greeks the vast stretches of the sea must have had the same sort of mystery and remoteness that space has for our generation”. The plot of the film concerns f(...)

YEAR: 1968

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Charybdis Homer Jupiter Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Polyphemus Scylla Sirens Telemachus

Brett Helquist , Lemony Snicket

A Series of Unfortunate Events (Series, Books 1-13)

This series of thirteen 13-chaptered novels follows the "unfortunate events" which befall Violet, Klaus and baby Sunny Baudelaire after the death of their parents in a fire in the family home. On becoming orphans, the siblings are placed in the custody of their uncle, Count Olaf, who, from the first book onwards tries various – and typically murderous – ways, to acquire their huge fortune. Olaf is aided throughout by his accomplices in V.F.S., a mysterious organisation to w(...)

YEAR: 1999

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Calypso Charybdis Damocles Glaucus Gorgon(s) Heracles Lotus Eaters / Lotophagoi Nero Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Plato Sappho Scylla

Annie Sullivan

A Touch of Gold

Kora is the daughter of King Midas. When Dionysus grants him the golden touch, Midas inadvertently turns her, aged seven, into a golden statue. After begging the deceitful god to reverse the power, the king submerges himself and his daughter in the nearby river, but while celebrating Kora’s return to human form, Midas forgets to adhere to the terms of Dionysus’ bargain – that all the items he turned to gold must be washed in the river before sunset. Twelve objects are forgotten(...)

YEAR: 2018

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Golden Touch Midas Odyssey Poseidon Sirens Triton

Dapo Adeleke

Adamu and His Horse

Adamu and His Horse is a Children’s fiction, didactic and with thematic thrusts yarned from oral tradition. Adamu is a young and ambitious young man. His parents migrated to Garinlafiya long time ago from their ancestral village where they were relatively wealthy but had to leave because of famine. His father had a retinue of slaves but trusted one. On the night of their departure from Garinlafiya, he tied together most of his property and money which were too heavy to carry on the back of(...)

YEAR: 2004

COUNTRY: Nigeria

TAGS: African Storytelling African Traditions Archetype Odyssey Slavery in Africa

Gilly Cameron Cooper

Ancient Greek Myths (Series): Cyclops

An educational comic that retells elements from the Odyssey, focusing on the Cyclops. It begins with informational pages about The Greeks, the Gods and Myths, (4-5), then provides maps for Setting the Scene, (6-7) before retelling the myth in 7 short chapters: A Long Way from Home, A Promising Land, The Cyclops Comes Home, Outwitting the Cyclops, Blind Man’s Bluff, Partin Shot, Poseidon’s Revenge. A Glossary and Index complete the book.In The Greeks, Their Gods and Myths, a short exp(...)

YEAR: 2007

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

TAGS: Apollo Calypso Charybdis Circe Corsica Cyclops / Cyclopes Ismarus Lotus Eaters / Lotophagoi Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Penelope Polyphemus Poseidon Telemachus Trojan War Troy Zeus

Marios Aristopoulos, Jesse McGibney, Maciej Paprocki, Lee Vermeulen

Apotheon features the story of Nikandreos, a warrior from the village of Dion, and his journey to save his village and the Earth from the wrath of Zeus. The story begins with the ransack of Dion by invaders. Nikandreos saves his village alongside surviving soldiers and then heads to the temple, where Hera congratulates him for defeating the invaders and recruits him as her champion to take down Zeus, in revenge for her husband’s affairs with other gods and humans. He agrees to this task an(...)

YEAR: 2015

COUNTRY: Canada

TAGS: Acheron (River) Aesop’s Fables Aphrodite Apollo Ares Argonauts Artemis Athena / Athene Atlantis Bacchus Castor Charon Chimera / Chimaera Cocytus (River) Cyclops / Cyclopes Daphne Demeter Dionysus / Dionysos Greek Music Hades Hephaestus Hera Heracles Heraclitus (of Ephesus) Hermes Homer Hydra Iliad Immortality Labyrinth Lethe (River) Midas Nymphs Odyssey Olympus Persephone Phlegethon (River) Poseidon Pottery / Vases Satyr(s) Sculpture Styx Thetis Underworld Zeus

Jan Bajtlik

Ariadne’s Thread: Myths and Labyrinths [Nić Ariadny. Mity i Labirynty]

Bajtlik’s mythical catalogue consist of numerous depictions of the labyrinth in various configurations, each alluding to classical motifs and mythological stories. In the Introduction we read that ancient Greece was one of the most fascinating countries in the world whose culture and history influenced Europe and are admired to this day (Bajtlik, 2018: 5). Labyrinths drawn and described by Batjlik ought to lead the reader through this tradition, and teach them about ancient stories and cus(...)

YEAR: 2018

COUNTRY: Poland

TAGS: Gods Iliad Labyrinth Minotaur Monsters Odyssey

Brendan Shusterman , Neal Shusterman

Challenger Deep

Challenger Deep is an episodic, non-linear contemporary novel that retells the Odyssey, and that draws on aspects of fabulism to inform 15-year-old Caden’s delusions as he is treated for schizophrenia in a juvenile psychiatric hospital. The novel alternates between events that occurred before his hospitalisation and during his stay. While these moments can initially be distinguished by the difference in the setting (the real-world setting and the sea voyage), these settings are increasingl(...)

YEAR: 2015

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Calypso Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Penelope Polyphemus

Imogen Greenberg , Isabel Greenberg

Discover… (Series): The Ancient Greeks

Discover... began in 2016. It is part of a series offering a light-hearted introduction to a range of ancient cultures, including The Roman Empire, The Ancient Aztecs, and The Ancient Egyptians.Discover... The Ancient Greeks opens with the stated intention of exploring who the ancient Greeks really were. The book is divided into 2-page sub-sections, each discussing a different aspect of ancient Greek culture.(...)

YEAR: 2017

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Achilles Aesop Aesop’s Fables Alexander the Great Ancient Slavery Aphrodite Architecture Argo Argonauts Ariadne Athena / Athene Athens Chorus Crete Delos Dionysus / Dionysos Divination Egypt Fable Gods Golden Fleece Graeco-Persian Wars Greek Art Greek History Greek Music Greek Philosophy Greek Theatre Hades Harpies Hector Helen Hera Heracles Hercules Hermes Homer Iliad Jason Labyrinth Laurel Wreath Maze Medea Menelaus Minos Minotaur Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Oedipus Olympic Games Olympus Oracles Orpheus Paris (Trojan Prince) Penelope Pericles Poseidon Pythia Scylla Sirens Socrates Sophocles Sparta Theseus Thetis Trojan Horse Trojan War Troy Zeus

Carl Barks, Jymn Magon

Ducktales (Series)

Inspired by Carl Banks’ 1947 Uncle Scrooge comics, Ducktales was created by Disney Studios to tell the adventures of Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck and their three nephews: Huey, Dewey, and Louie. The series begins with Donald Duck being sent to the Navy and entrusting his three nephews to his uncle Scrooge. a billionaire who lives alone in his mansion in Duckburg. Upon being left with his great-nephews, Scrooge McDuck embarks on various adventures with them, occasionally featuring ancient hi(...)

YEAR: 1987

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Ancient Temples Aphrodite Argonauts Atlantis Circe Colossus of Rhodes Cupid Dragons Golden Fleece Harpies Homer Jason Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Olympus Sirens Vulcan

Passport Games Studio , Cecilia Hyland, Eric Hyland

Fleecing Olympus

Fleecing Olympus is a 3-6 player table top game consisting of character cards, playing cards, and gems. The aim of the game is to be the player with the most gems in their hand when the playing cards run out. At the beginning of each round, the players are dealt one of nine possible character cards at random. Each character card represents an ancient Greek god or goddess who the player will henceforth be known as throughout the game. The character cards, which consist of Zeus, Hera, Aphrodite, A(...)

YEAR: 2018

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Achilles Aphrodite Apollo Ares Artemis Athena / Athene Fates Golden Fleece Hades Hera Heracles Hermes Odyssey Pandora’s Box Perseus Poseidon Trojan Horse Zeus

Eliza Piotrowska

Frank, Helen, Baby, and the Trojan Horse [Franek, Hela, Bobas i koń trojański]

Based on: Katarzyna Marciniak, Elżbieta Olechowska, Joanna Kłos, Michał Kucharski (eds.), Polish Literature for Children & Young Adults Inspired by Classical Antiquity: A Catalogue, Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, Warsaw: University of Warsaw, 2013, 444 pp., online: http://omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/omc_catalogue.Everything starts in the living room when parents realise that two of their three kids, Baby and Helen with their dog, disappeared when they got under the cupboard. Both mother(...)

YEAR: 2008

COUNTRY: Poland

TAGS: Ariadne Ariadne's Thread Daedalus Helen Icarus Labyrinth Maze Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Paris (Trojan Prince) Theseus Trojan Horse Trojan War Troy

Kendare Blake

Goddess War (Series, Book 1): Antigoddess

Like several other recent novels for young adults, including Aimee Carter’s The Goddess Test (2011) and Bree Despain’s Into the Dark series, Kendare Blake’s Antigoddess explores the premise that ancient gods have survived into the modern age. Ranging across both urban and natural landscapes of the United States, the novel is focalised through Athena, who is accompanied by her brother, Hermes. The pair resemble modern teenagers: Hermes wears jeans and a tight t-sh(...)

YEAR: 2013

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Andromache Aphrodite Apollo Athena / Athene Cassandra Circe Demeter Hector Hera Hermes Monsters Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Poseidon Trojan War Troy

Kendare Blake

Goddess War (Series, Book 2): Mortal Gods

As this novel is the second in the series, it is a continuation of many of the plots developed in the first book Antigoddess, a summary of which can be found here. Picking up three months after the events of Antigoddess, Cassandra Weaver is still grieving the loss of her boyfriend, Aidan Baxter (Apollo) and is determined to avenge his death by killing Aphrodite and the remainder of the Olympians with her newly discovered, god-destroying powers.The novel begins with Athena and Demeter discus(...)

YEAR: 2014

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Achilles Andromache Aphrodite Ares Athena / Athene Atropos Calypso Cassandra Clotho Fates Hector Hera Hermes Lachesis Moirai Monsters Odyssey Persephone Poseidon Trojan War

Kendare Blake

Goddess War (Series, Book 3): Ungodly

As this novel is the third in the Goddess War series, it is the culmination of several plotlines developed over the course of the first and second books in this trilogy. Summaries for the previous two novels can be found here:Goddess War (Series, Book 1): AntigoddessGoddess War (Series, Book 2): Mortal GodsUngodly begins a month after the events of Mortal Gods in which the key characters, Cassandra and Calypso, Athena, and Odysseus, as well Hermes, Henry, and Andie are all separated from on(...)

YEAR: 2015

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Achilles Aeacus Andromache Aphrodite Apollo Ares Athena / Athene Atropos Calypso Cassandra Clotho Fates Furies Hades Hector Hephaestus Hera Hermes Lachesis Minos Moirai Monsters Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Persephone Poseidon Rhadamanthus / Rhadamanthys Thanatos Trojan War

Chris Riddell

Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse

Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse is the first in a series of Goth Girl books by Chris Riddell which uses intertextual play with Gothic writers and literary conventions as well as other literary characters and mythology.Ada Goth is the only child of Lord Goth. The two live together in Ghastly-Gorm Hall. Ada is a lonely child, her father believing that children should be heard and not seen, therefore making her wear a pair of heavy boots so he can always hear her coming. A series of unsuccessful(...)

YEAR: 2013

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

TAGS: Eurydice Harpies Minotaur Odyssey Orpheus Pegasus Persephone Sirens Zeus

Jack Baran , Christopher Carlson , Mark Jean , Shirō Sasaki , Cynthia Voigt

Based on the novel of the same name, Homecoming tells the story of four siblings – Dicey, James, Maybeth and Sammy Tillerman– who are abandoned by their mother. (Their father had already abandoned the family some years before.) Led by the eldest, Dicey, the children make their way mostly on foot down the east coast of the United States. At their lowest ebb, they meet a student called Windy who drives them to the home of their cousin Eunice. Eunice is willing to take Dicey and Ma(...)

YEAR: 1996

COUNTRY: Russia United States of America

TAGS: Aeolus Homer Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Penelope Polyphemus Scylla

Klaxons

The song is inspired by an episode in the novel Exploits and Opinions of Doctor Faustroll, Pataphysician by French absurdist and Symbolist Alfred Jarry, entitled "Concerning the Isle of Her, the Cyclops, and the Great Swan which is of Crystal", which is made clear in the lyrics, some of which are drawn directly from this passage.The song describes a journey to the "Isle of Her", with a choral refrain of "Row! There’s only seven more miles to go" being repeated(...)

YEAR: 2007

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

TAGS: Circe Cyclops / Cyclopes Homer Odyssey

Adèle Geras

Just as her novel Troy imagines new stories playing out within the final days of the Trojan War, in this text Geras locates her tale on Ithaca during the long years of Odysseus’ absence. The story centres on the teenager Klymene, granddaughter of the old nurse Eurycleia. Orphaned as a baby, she and her twin brother Ikarios have grown up in the royal palace alongside Telemachus. The trio have always been friends, but Klymene is beginning to have other feelings for the Prince. Tel(...)

YEAR: 2005

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

TAGS: Amphimedon Antinoos (Penelope's Suitor) Argos (Dog) Athena / Athene Eurycleia Homer Ithaca Melantho Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Penelope Poseidon Telemachus Trojan War

Deirdre Barry, Richard Morss

I’m a Monster (Series, 52 Episodes)

2D animation series for children of pre-school age (4-8 years), about monsters from various parts of the world. In each episode of the series (duration: 2 minutes) we meet another character who presents himself to the audience (with the voice of an actor) and tells some fun facts about himself.* Most of presented characters are well-known – they come from mythology of different cultures, from literature, movies etc. The material is rich, colorful and original. In twelve episodes of th(...)

YEAR: 2010

COUNTRY: Ireland

TAGS: Acropolis Ancient Temples Andromeda Aphrodite Apollo Ares Arges (Cyclops) Argonauts Argos / Argus Panoptes (Giant) Ariadne Artemis Asterion Athena / Athene Basilisk Brontes Centaur(s) Cerberus Ceto Charybdis Chimera / Chimaera Chiron / Cheiron Chrysaor Colosseum Crete Crommyonian Sow Cronus / Kronos Cup of Invisibility Cyclops / Cyclopes Daedalus Dionysus / Dionysos Echidna Erinyes Furies Gaia / Gaea Giants Gods Gorgon(s) Greece Greek Gods Greeks Hades Hecatoncheires / Hundred-Handed Heracles Hercules Hero(es) Homer Hydra Iliad Iolaus Ixion Labyrinth Medusa Minos Minos’ Palace Minotaur Muses Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Olympians Orpheus Ouranos / Uranus Pasiphae Pegasus Persephone Perseus Philyra Phorcys Pliny the Elder Poseidon Pottery / Vases Rome Scylla Sea Nymphs Sicily Sirens Sphinx Springs of Amymone Steropes (Cyclops) Tartarus Theseus Thessaly Thetis Titans Typhon / Typhoeus / Typhaon Zeus

The LEGO Company

Lego Minifigures (Series)

LEGO’s permeation into popular culture is evident through its release of thematic sets to coincide with the release of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace in 1999, and through its collaboration with Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and The Simpsons. As of 2010, LEGO began to release themed collectible minifigures that were based on fantasy, sports, history, and popular culture. A minifigure is defined as a small posable person with ‘rotating arms, legs, hands, and heads… (with) connectors (...)

YEAR: 2010

COUNTRY: United Kingdom United States of America

TAGS: Amazons Athena / Athene Caesar Cyclops / Cyclopes Emperor Faun Gladiators Medusa Minotaur Neptune Odyssey Pan Perseus Poseidon Roman Empire Spartans Theseus

Jennifer Adams, Alison Oliver

Little Master Homer. The Odyssey

The Little Master Homer: The Odyssey takes nine episodes from Homer's Odyssey and distils each into a picture/caption/speech-bubble unit. The illustrations cross two pages; they are bold and stylised, designed to capture the attention of very young children. The first character introduced is 'Calypso, the Nymph'. She is saying, I keep Odysseus here with me since I saved him from the wine-dark sea. Next, 'Ino, the Sea Nymph', says, Take my veil and tie it around your(...)

YEAR: 2017

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Achilles Afterlife Agamemnon Charybdis Circe Cyclops / Cyclopes Divination Fate Greek Music Hades Homer Iliad Nymphs Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Polyphemus Scylla Sirens Underworld

Joan Holub, Leslie Patricelli

Mini Myths (Series): Don't Get Lost, Odysseus!

In Don’t Get Lost, Odysseus, Odysseus is a pre-school-aged child living in the modern world. The first page introduces the character with a single word – his name, while the facing page introduces his main fascination, 'Adventure', which is illustrated by the entrance to a children's play area.Odysseus and his mother are approaching a mall; she wants to go to a shop, he wants to go home. Once they are in a shop, Odysseus' attention switches to wishing to go to an enti(...)

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Aphrodite Architecture Athena / Athene Cyclops / Cyclopes Gods Heracles Hercules Homer Medusa Midas Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Pandora Penelope Polyphemus Sirens Trojan War

Anita Ganeri , David West

Monster Fight Club (Series): Heroes of Myths and Legends

Monster Fight Club is a series of books written in collaboration by Anita Ganeri and David West. In this series, heroes, monsters, mythical beasts, legendary figures from around the world are pitted against one another, much as in a Dungeons and Dragons battle, or computer game. Readers are presented with some context, some facts and some figures about each pair of contestants, before they enter the ring for combat. A double-page narrative, with images of the fighting figures, sums up how the fi(...)

YEAR: 2012

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Achilles Aeneas Amazons Aphrodite Dido Gorgon(s) Hector Heracles Hercules Homer Iliad Latium Lavinia Medusa Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Penthesilea Perseus Trojan War

Gisela Baños, Victor Sabaté

Mythological Monsters [Monstruos Mitológicos]

Monstruos Mitológicos is an engaging exploration of the mythological creatures of the classical world. The illustrated chapter book selects fourteen monsters and beasts from ancient Greece; these include the ghastly and terrifying and the incredible and awe-inspiring. Included in the selection are the Minotaur ("Minotauro"), Medusa, the Sphinx ("la Esfinge"), mermaids ("las sirenas"), Chimera ("Quimera"), and the Harpies ("las arpías&quo(...)

YEAR: 2019

COUNTRY: Spain

TAGS: Charybdis Greek Religion Homer Minotaur Odyssey Polyphemus Scylla Sirens

Margot McGovern

When seventeen-year-old orphan Kit Learmonth tries to commit suicide by slashing her wrists in the swimming pool of her prestigious boarding school, her uncle takes her back to her childhood home to recuperate. Before her parents drowned in an accident at sea when she was ten, Kit grew up on an idyllic island owned for generations by her wealthy, infamous family. Though its official name is Learmonth Island, everyone refers to it as Neverland. In Kit’s mind, it is a place of magic and adve(...)

YEAR: 2018

COUNTRY: Australia

TAGS: Andromache Celtic Mythology Charybdis Hector Homer Iliad Metamorphoses (Ovid's) Metamorphosis Monsters Norse Mythology Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Ovid Plato Sappho Scylla Sirens Virgil

Neil Gaiman

Richard Mayhew is a young businessman recently moved to London where his job is almost as dull as his fiancé, a demanding and over-bearing social climber. One night he stumbles over a girl lying injured on the sidewalk. When he stops to help her, he inadvertently opens himself up to a second fantastical world – London Below, an underworld city that shadows the real London. Neverwhere involves a character descending into the Underworld, Odysseus-like, to see what lies beyond the ever(...)

YEAR: 1996

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

TAGS: Cerberus Labyrinth Lamia Minotaur Mithras Odyssey Underworld

Adam J. B. Lane, David Slavin

Odd Gods: The Oddyssey

The publisher identifies this series as Diary of a Wimpy Kid meets Percy Jackson. This is the second book of the series, which follows the adventures of Oddonis. Oddonis and his twin brother, Adonis, are the twin sons of Zeus and his Norse goddess wife, Freya. While Adonis and his friends, Poseidon and Heracles, are considered in the Gods group, due to their looks and powers, Oddonis and his friends are in the Odd gods group. His friends include Mathena, goddess of math and poultry, Gaseous (his(...)

YEAR: 2020

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Cerberus Circe Hades Heracles Homer Odyssey Phaethon Poseidon Sirens Underworld Zeus

Jan Parandowski

Odysseus’ Adventures [Przygody Odyseusza]

Based on: Katarzyna Marciniak, Elżbieta Olechowska, Joanna Kłos, Michał Kucharski (eds.), Polish Literature for Children & Young Adults Inspired by Classical Antiquity: A Catalogue, Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, Warsaw: University of Warsaw, 2013, 444 pp., online: http://omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/omc_catalogue.The adaptation covers the events in the Odyssey. The sequence of chapters corresponds to the Odyssey as follows:Odysseus’ Adventures — Odyssey Chap(...)

YEAR: 1935

COUNTRY: Poland

TAGS: Aeolus Athena / Athene Charybdis Circe Cyclops / Cyclopes Helen Hermes Homer Ithaca Menelaus Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Poseidon Sirens Telemachus Tiresias Trojan War

Manuela Adreani

Odyssey [Odissea]

The book is based on the plot of the original Homeric epic – it is the story of Odysseus, who after the fall of Troy wanders the seas trying to come back to his home island of Ithaca. At the same time on Ithaca, Odysseus’ son Telemachus and his wife – Penelope, are struggling with the suitors who attempt to force the Queen into re-marriage. Telemachus decides to leave Ithaca to find some news about his father. Odissea in the adaptation of Giorgio Ferrero, presents the same thre(...)

YEAR: 2016

COUNTRY: Italy

TAGS: Aeolus Antinoos (Penelope's Suitor) Argos (Dog) Athena / Athene Calypso Charybdis Circe Cyclops / Cyclopes Demodocus Eumaeus / Eumaios Eurymachus Helen Hermes Iros / Arnaios Ithaca Laertes Menelaus Nausicaa Nestor Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Ogygia Olympus Penelope Polyphemus Poseidon Pylos Scylla Sirens Sparta Tiresias Trojan Horse Troy Zeus

George O'Connor

Olympians (Series)

Olympians is a series of graphic novels that takes one deity per volume as the focus, retelling numerous myths related to that god.Volume 1. Zeus. King of the Gods. Featuring creation myths and the war between the Titans and Olympians. Narrator unspecified.Volume 2. Athena. Grey-Eyed Goddess. Featuring the myth of Athena's conception and birth; Pallas; the attack of the Giants; Medusa and Perseus; Arachne. Narrated by the Moirae (The Fates). Volume 3. Hera. The Goddess and her Glory. Fe(...)

YEAR: 2010

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Achilles Aeneas Aesop Aesop’s Fables Afterlife Agamemnon Amphitrite Anteros Aphrodite Apollo Apples of the Hesperides Arachne Architecture Ares Argo Argonauts Ariadne Artemis Asclepius Athena / Athene Athens Atlas Bacchus Baucis Centaur(s) Cerberus Ceres Charybdis Chimera / Chimaera Crete Cronus / Kronos Cyclops / Cyclopes Daedalus Delos Demeter Diana Dionysus / Dionysos Divination Egypt Egyptian Mythology Epimetheus Erinyes Eris Eros Europa Fable Furies Gaia / Gaea Galatea Gods Golden Fleece Greek Art Greek History Greek Music Greek Philosophy Griffins / Gryphons Hades Harpies Hecate Hector Helen Hephaestus Hera Heracles Hercules Hermes Hestia Homer Hydra Icarus Iliad Immortality Jason Juno Jupiter Katabasis Labyrinth Laurel Wreath Leto Mars Maze Medusa Menelaus Mercury Metamorphoses (Ovid's) Metempsychosis Metis Minos Minotaur Nymphs Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Olympus Oracles Ovid Pan Pandora Pandora’s Box Paris (Trojan Prince) Pasiphae Patroclus Pegasus Penelope Persephone Perseus Philemon Polyphemus Poseidon Priam Prometheus Sirens Sisyphus Sphinx Stymphalian Birds Styx Theseus Thetis Trojan Horse Trojan War Troy Twelve Labours of Heracles Underworld Zeus

George O'Connor

Olympians (Series, Book 5): Poseidon. Earth Shaker

Poseidon. Earth Shaker has Poseidon himself as its narrator and it tells stories of the god’s offspring and of his contest to be the patron of Athens. As a first generation Olympian, Poseidon was part of the overthrow of Cronos, and the graphic novel opens with the brothers Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades looking down into the great chasm into which Cronos has been hurled. The division of the realms takes place, and "of course" (p.4), Poseidon receives the seas as his domain. There are(...)

YEAR: 2013

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Architecture Ariadne Athena / Athene Athens Crete Cronus / Kronos Cyclops / Cyclopes Daedalus Eurystheus Gods Greek Art Greek History Hades Hera Heracles Hercules Homer Labyrinth Maze Medusa Minos Minotaur Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Oracles Pasiphae Pegasus Polyphemus Poseidon Theseus Trojan Horse Trojan War Twelve Labours of Heracles Zeus

Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson & The Olympians (Series, Book 2): The Sea of Monsters

This second book in the Percy Jackson series opens with Percy experiencing a recurring dream about his friend Grover, who is perceived to be in danger. Percy notes that he hasn’t seen Grover since the previous summer’s events; Grover having gone on a quest to locate the missing god Pan. Percy recalls an uneventful year, which he is about to complete without being excluded from school. In the absence of Grover he has also made a new friend, Tyson, a physically strong, but emotion(...)

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Argonautica Argonauts Greek Gods Hero(es) Monsters Odyssey Sea Monsters

Thor Freudenthal, Marc Guggenheim, Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson and the Olympians (Series): The Sea of Monsters

The film opens with Percy Jackson providing voiceover to a scene set seven years previously. Four children run through the woods from an unseen threat. Three of the children are revealed to be Luke, Grover and Annabeth. As they approach the boundary to Camp Half-blood the fourth, unnamed, child fights the monsters alone to save the others. She is killed and revealed to be Thalia, daughter of Zeus. In response to her death, Zeus transforms her body into a tree and creates a magical boundary emana(...)

YEAR: 2013

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Argonautica Cronus / Kronos Hero(es) Odyssey Polyphemus

Thetis Authentics Ltd.

Pinax. Gods and Heroes [Πίναξ. Θεοί και Ήρωες (Pínaks. Theoí kai Īrōes)] (Series): Theseus [Θησέας (Thīséas)]

For details summarising the game series, please see Pinax. Gods and Heroes. Athena [πίναξ. θεοί και Ηρωες. Αθηνά] entry in this database.This particular puzzle should have shown Theseus fighting the Minotaur, but the wrong puzzle was included in the box so that instead it features an incomplete puzzle of Odysseus blinding the Cyclops (the manufacturers have been contacted for comment). Ther(...)

YEAR: 2013

COUNTRY: Greece

TAGS: Crete Cyclops / Cyclopes Gods Greek Art Homer Labyrinth Maze Minotaur Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Polyphemus Theseus

Lisa Jane Gillespie , Emi Ordas

Sticker Greek Myths

Each 1 or 2-page section of Sticker Greek Myths presents a scene of figures within an ancient environment, accompanied by approximately fifty words of explanatory text. The child reader/viewer is invited to use stickers that are specific to that section to build-up the scene. The stickers typically feature clothing and accessories such as weapons and ropes, and scene-specific items such as Heracles' lion-skin cloak and the Chimera's heads.1. Mount Olympus: This section introduces th(...)

YEAR: 2015

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

TAGS: Afterlife Apollo Architecture Argo Argonauts Ariadne Artemis Atalanta Athena / Athene Athens Bellerophon Chimera / Chimaera Crete Cyclops / Cyclopes Daedalus Demeter Diana Dionysus / Dionysos Gods Golden Fleece Hades Hera Heracles Hercules Hermes Hippolyta Icarus Jason Juno Jupiter Katabasis Labyrinth Laurel Wreath Maze Medusa Mercury Midas Minerva Minos Minotaur Neptune Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Olympus Orpheus Pegasus Persephone Perseus Pluto / Plouton Polyphemus Poseidon Proserpina / Proserpine Sirens Theseus Twelve Labours of Heracles Underworld Zeus

Christopher Ford

Stickman Odyssey (Series, Book One): An Epic Doodle

Stickman Odyssey is a revision of Homer's epic in which one man, Zozimos, sets out to return home and fulfil his destiny.(...)

YEAR: 2011

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Homer Odyssey

Ofra Deshe-Dalman

Stories from the Iliad, the Odyssey and the Trojan War (Sipurei Iliada, Odysseia u Milchemet Troia סיפורי איליאדה אודיסיאה ומלחמת טרויה)

The book offers a retelling of The Iliad and The Odyssey. The narrative is accompanied by black and white photos of Greek vase paintings of the narrated scenes. First, the book contains the Iliad narrative (the chapters include: the jealously of the goddesses, the feud between Agamemnon and Achilles, Agamemnon's dream, Menelaus vs. Paris, the fickleness of the war, Achilles' saving of the Greeks, a fickle war, a fierce battle, the return of Achilles, the war on Olympus and the deat(...)

YEAR: 1993

COUNTRY: Israel

TAGS: Iliad Odyssey Trojan War

Adam Bahdaj

Telemachus in Jeans [Telemach w dżinsach]

Based on: Katarzyna Marciniak, Elżbieta Olechowska, Joanna Kłos, Michał Kucharski (eds.), Polish Literature for Children & Young Adults Inspired by Classical Antiquity: A Catalogue, Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, Warsaw: University of Warsaw, 2013, 444 pp., online: http://omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/omc_catalogue.A 15-year-old boy Maciek Łańko starts a journey in search of his father Waldemar, who abandoned his family when Maciek was three. The boy sets out from Jerzmanów, a smal(...)

YEAR: 1979

COUNTRY: Poland

TAGS: Homer Odyssey Telemachus Trojan War

Stanisław Srokowski

The Adventures of Odysseus [Przygody Odyseusza]

Based on: Katarzyna Marciniak, Elżbieta Olechowska, Joanna Kłos, Michał Kucharski (eds.), Polish Literature for Children & Young Adults Inspired by Classical Antiquity: A Catalogue, Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, Warsaw: University of Warsaw, 2013, 444 pp., online: http://omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/omc_catalogue. Designed in the same manner as Stanisław Srokowski’s Wojna trojańska [Trojan War], Przygody Odyseusza is an abridged and simplified version of Homer’s Od(...)

YEAR: 1994

COUNTRY: Poland

TAGS: Achilles Aeolus Agamemnon Athena / Athene Charybdis Circe Cyclops / Cyclopes Helen Homer Menelaus Nestor Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Penelope Scylla Sirens Telemachus

Stuart Hill, Sandra Lawrence

The Atlas of Heroes. A World of Heroes from Myth and Legend

This atlas is large in scale (at 28x34cm) and sumptuously illustrated with hand-drawn maps decorated with numerous heroes associated with each location. The figures on the maps are numbered, and these correspond to a companion page which features summaries of each hero. The maps are double-framed within an introductory story communicated via text and illustration; a young girl discovers the atlas as part of a stash of items in an attic, and the atlas features notes added by her as she uncovers m(...)

YEAR: 2018

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

TAGS: Achilles Aeneas Aeneid Aesop Agamemnon Argo Argonauts Ariadne Athena / Athene Athens Atlas Bellerophon Bible Cassandra Cleopatra VII Crete Egypt Gilgamesh Golden Fleece Hector Hecuba Helen Heracles Hercules Homer Iliad Jason Labyrinth Mark Antony Medea Menelaus Minos Minotaur Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Pegasus Penelope Priam Roman History Theseus Trojan Horse Trojan War Troy Twelve Labours of Heracles Virgil

Robert Byrd, Laura Amy Schlitz

The Hero Schliemann: The Dreamer Who Dug for Troy

Schlitz’ book gives an account of the life of Heinrich Schliemann, the infamous figure who discovered – and also destroyed – the ancient city of Troy. It reveals how Schliemann made his fortune, and how he remade the story of his life. Schlitz challenges the veracity of Schliemann’s own biography, and explores the psychology of a man who loved stories so much that "he wanted them to be true." (p. 2) One of nine children, and the eldest surviving son, Schlie(...)

YEAR: 2006

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Archaeology Bronze Age Homer Iliad Mycenae Odyssey Troy

Gillian Cross, Neil Packer

Gillian Cross' The Iliad opens with events prior to the Trojan War, starting with the three goddesses arguing over the apple. The text then moves on to a retelling of Homer's Iliad itself, before concluding with an "Afterwards" chapter relating Achilles' death, the quarrel over his armour, the wooden horse, Cassandra's insight (Virgil, Aeneid, 2.246), the fall of Troy, Diomedes' and Odysseus' post-Troy journeys, and Agamemnon's murder (see esp. Aeschylus, Ag(...)

YEAR: 2015

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

TAGS: Achilles Aeneas Agamemnon Aphrodite Apollo Architecture Ares Artemis Asclepius Athena / Athene Cassandra Eris Gods Greek History Hector Helen Hera Hermes Homer Iliad Juno Katabasis Menelaus Minerva Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Paris (Trojan Prince) Penelope Thetis Trojan Horse Trojan War Troy Underworld Zeus

Eric Freeberg, Kathleen Olmstead

This retelling of Homer's epic tale begins with a prologue that describes the judgement of Paris and how that led to the generals of ancient Greece marching on Troy. We are introduced to each of the gods of Olympus and told that we will learn of a great warrior Achilles, and his rage. The prologue ends with a picture page depicting the key characters in the narrative. The narrative begins with a clash between Achilles and Agamemnon which leads to Achilles withdrawing from battle and seeking (...)

YEAR: 2014

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Achilles Agamemnon Ajax / Aias Aphrodite Apollo Athena / Athene Diomedes (Son of Tydeus) Hector Hephaestus Hera Hermes Nestor Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Patroclus Poseidon Thetis Trojan War Zeus

DK

The Mythology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

The book presents eighty references from world mythology. The text is accompanied by graphics and photos. The mythologies included in the book are ancient Greek, ancient Roman, Northern Europe, Asia, The Americas, Ancient Egypt and Africa, and Oceania. The book includes a directory and index. Before the actual myth, a short introduction to the relevant culture is given,, as well as an “in brief" section, a short table which contains the theme of the myth, its ancient sources, the(...)

YEAR: 2018

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

TAGS: Aeneid Argonauts Atlantis Cupid Daedalus Golden Touch Heracles Hercules Icarus Iliad Medusa Metamorphosis Midas Minotaur Mithras Odyssey Oedipus Olympians Oresteia Orpheus Pandora Prometheus Psyche Romulus Titans Trojan War

Gillian Cross, Neil Packer

Gillian Cross' Odyssey is an abridged retelling of Homer's Odyssey, set in Greek antiquity. It is a retelling of ancient myth with an emphasis on striking visualisation. Chapter headings:The WarTravelling into DisasterThe Giant in the CaveAeolus and CirceGhosts and MonstersStranded on Calypso's IslandNausicaaOdysseus the BeggarA Husband for PenelopeHomer's Odyssey is retold, rearranged into more chronological order. The introduction explains the Trojan War briefly by way of (...)

YEAR: 2012

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

TAGS: Achilles Afterlife Agamemnon Aphrodite Apollo Architecture Ares Artemis Asclepius Athena / Athene Charybdis Circe Cyclops / Cyclopes Gods Greek History Hades Hermes Homer Iliad Ithaca Katabasis Menelaus Odyssey Penelope Polyphemus Poseidon Scylla Sirens Telemachus Trojan Horse Trojan War Troy Underworld Zeus

Richard Whitaker

The Odyssey of Homer: A Southern African Translation

The epic begins with the growth of Telemakhos, the epic hero, Odysseus’ son. Two issues occupy the hero’s son: the readiness to welcome his father’s return from adventurous journeys and his preparedness to fight intruding enemies. Assisted by the goddess Athene, the young hero’s development into manhood is secured. Aware of the backup, Telemakhos defies his enemies at home and goes out for his own adventures in Sparta, with one goal: to look for his father. The epic shift(...)

YEAR: 2017

COUNTRY: Republic of South Africa

TAGS: African Storytelling African Traditions Homer Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Penelope Telemachus

Jan Lewis, Saviour Pirotta

The Orchard Book of First Greek Myths

This is a very popular collection of ten retellings of ancient myths, attractively laid-out and well-written for a young audience. There is an illustrated Table of Contents at the start, which enables pre-literate children to participate in choosing the story that will be read, as well as teaching them how to use a ToC.Each story begins with an elaborate fronts-piece full of details from the story, and each story concludes with a small image that contains a key element of the myth. Both elements(...)

YEAR: 2003

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

TAGS: Arachne Architecture Argo Argonauts Ariadne Athena / Athene Athens Bellerophon Chimera / Chimaera Crete Daedalus Dionysus / Dionysos Epimetheus Gods Golden Fleece Graeae / Graiai Helen Homer Icarus Jason Labyrinth Maze Medea Medusa Menelaus Metamorphoses (Ovid's) Midas Minerva Minos Minotaur Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Ovid Pan Pandora Pandora’s Box Paris (Trojan Prince) Pegasus Perseus Theseus Trojan Horse Trojan War Troy

Dakota Lane

The Orpheus Obsession

The Orpheus Obsession is the coming-of-age story of sixteen-year-old Annoshka Stargirl. She loves photography, and has a habit of imagining her life as a movie. She lives in upstate New York with her mother, who is depressed and remote, and her beloved budgie Zach. Her father moved out years ago and rarely makes contact. Anooshka’s stylish older sister, Zoetrope Zallulah Moon (known as ZZ Moon), has already left home and rents an apartment in New York City. At the start of the summer holid(...)

YEAR: 2005

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Eurydice Fate Odyssey Orpheus Underworld

Margaret Atwood

The Penelopiad is part of the Canongate Myths Series, which ‘brings together some of the world’s finest writers, each of whom have retold a myth in a contemporary and memorable way.’ Though marketed for adults, the text is accessible to mature teenage readers, and features on secondary school reading lists.Atwood allows Penelope to tell her own story, drawing upon Homer’s Odyssey but also on material from beyond this dominant source. Penelope, who has been in Ha(...)

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

TAGS: Antinoos (Penelope's Suitor) Helen Homer Ithaca Melantho Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Penelope Telemachus Trojan War Underworld

Paul Shipton

The Pig Who Saved the World

This comic adventure novel is a sequel to The Pig Scrolls, starring a pig named Gryllus. Gryllus was one of Odysseus’ crewmen who was transformed into a pig by Circe. When the rest of the sailors were returned to their human form, he hid in the bushes, and after being found by Sibyl, a courageous prophetess, and Homer, an awkward teenage poet, goes on to (unwittingly and unwillingly) save the world.In the sequel, The Pig Who Saved the World, Gryllus and his friends go back to the isla(...)

YEAR: 2006

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

TAGS: Circe Homer Labyrinth Midas Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Orpheus Polyphemus Proteus Sibyl Sirens Sisyphus Thanatos Tithonus Underworld

Natalia Rolleczek

The Splendid and the Most Splendid [Świetna i najświetniejsza]

Based on: Katarzyna Marciniak, Elżbieta Olechowska, Joanna Kłos, Michał Kucharski (eds.), Polish Literature for Children & Young Adults Inspired by Classical Antiquity: A Catalogue, Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, Warsaw: University of Warsaw, 2013, 444 pp., online: http://omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/omc_catalogue.Tyche, the goddess of destiny plays with the fate of two Greek siblings, Apion and Ammonia who meet two young Egyptian boys Enum and Uni; the former is the son of a distressed (...)

YEAR: 1979

COUNTRY: Poland

TAGS: Aeneid Alexandria Anagnorisis Aphrodite Apollo Arachne Caesar Circe Cleopatra VII Egypt Herodotus Homer Horace Iliad Library of Alexandria Mark Antony Mercury Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Orpheus Poseidon Tyche

Anna Banks

The Syrena Legacy (Series, Book 1): Of Poseidon

The 18-year-old girl Emma McIntosh lives with her mum in the coastal town of Jersey, Florida. Her father died of cancer some years earlier. At school she gets to know a mysterious boy, Galen, whose life she once saved without even knowing him. Galen tells Emma, that he is a Siren, a hybrid creature of man and fish, and belongs to the tribe of the Aquarius Triton. Furthermore he reveals to Emma, that she is also a mermaid-like Siren, who has lured sharks because of her ability to talk to fishes. (...)

YEAR: 2012

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Atlantis Homer Odyssey Plato Poseidon Sirens Triton

Anna Banks

The Syrena Legacy (Series, Book 2): Of Triton

In the second volume of the Syrena-Legacy-series Emma McIntosh and Prince Galen Triton are in love and are willing to stay together forever, at the risk of Galen losing his legacy of the house of Triton. His family refuses to accept a half-blood as a new empress. Therefore, they decide that Emma has to demonstrate to the members of the house of Poseidon that she is not just a powerless half-blood daughter of a man and a Siren, but a powerful girl blessed with the gift of Poseidon. She has to pro(...)

YEAR: 2013

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Atlantis Homer Odyssey Plato Poseidon Sirens Triton

Anna Banks

The Syrena Legacy (Series, Book 3): Of Neptune

In the third volume of the series The Syrena Legacy, Emma’s grandfather recommends that Emma and Galen visit a lost city named Neptune, because there live Sirens and half-bloods like Emma together in peace and harmony. After reaching this mythical location Emma gets to know the diver Reed, who suddenly falls in love with her and stalks her. Galen gets in big trouble, because Reed kidnaps him to keep him away from Emma. Reed is keen on destroying the houses of Poseidon and Triton, since he (...)

YEAR: 2014

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Atlantis Homer Odyssey Plato Poseidon Sirens Triton

Cynthia Voigt

The Tillerman Cycle (Series)

The Tillerman Cycle follows the lives of four siblings – Dicey, James, Maybeth and Sammy Tillerman – abandoned by their parents and in search of a new home. Over the course of seven novels, spanning nearly a decade in the children’s lives, Voigt explores themes of family, home, resilience, and the relationship between individuals and society. Brief summaries of the novels are included below; for more detailed summaries, see the individual entries elsewhere in the OMC survey.Hom(...)

YEAR: 1981

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Aeolus Alexander the Great Ancient Greek Dance Apollo Aristotle Circe Cyrus the Great Daedalus Dryades Fall of Rome Hippocratic Oath Homer Horace Icarus Lotus Eaters / Lotophagoi Nemesis Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Orion Penelope Persian Empire Phaethon Pleiades Polyphemus Scylla Sisyphus Trojan War Venus

Peter Raymundo

Third Grade Mermaid

Cora the mermaid has recently entered third grade, and is finding learning to spell challenging. Her mother gives her an enchanted tortoise-shell diary and some octopus ink, and encourages her to write up her experiences. It will help her improve her spelling, and give her a place to work out her emotions. Cora is more interested in swimming: she has made the junior swim team, known as the "Singing Sirens," but the coach informs her that unless she improves her bad grade in spelling (a(...)

YEAR: 2017

TAGS: Odyssey Sirens

Cynthia Voigt

Tillerman Cycle (Series, Book 1): Homecoming

Homecoming tells the story of four siblings – Dicey, James, Maybeth and Sammy Tillerman – who are abandoned by their mother (their father had already abandoned the family some years before). Led by the eldest, Dicey, the children make their way mostly on foot down the east coast of the United States. They come across a range of settings and characters with both realist and archetypal features including: runaway teenagers in the woods, students on a university campus, their bland(...)

YEAR: 1981

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Aeolus Circe Homer Lotus Eaters / Lotophagoi Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Penelope Polyphemus Scylla

Jean Chalopin, Yoshitake Suzuki, Nina Wolmark

Ulysses 31 [Ulysse 31]

Ulysses 31 was created by a Japanese animation company for a French audience, conceived as a way to use modern Japanese cartoon work to introduce a young audience to the myths of Odysseus within a futuristic sci-fi environment. The series is based on Homer's Odyssey, set in the 31st century. Some additional Greek myths and, to a much lesser extent, myths from further cultures, are woven into the narrative, including Native American. The premise of the programme and of individual episode(...)

YEAR: 1981

COUNTRY: France Japan

TAGS: Amazons Ancient Slavery Architecture Ariadne Asclepius Athena / Athene Charybdis Comedy (Ancient) Cronus / Kronos Cyclops / Cyclopes Demeter Divination Egypt Fate Galatea Gladiator Games Greek Theatre Hades Hermes Hydra Labyrinth Laurel Wreath Maze Mercury Metamorphoses (Ovid's) Minos Minotaur Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Oedipus Oracles Orpheus Pegasus Penelope Persephone Poseidon Scylla Sirens Sophocles Telemachus Theseus Tragedy (Ancient) Trojan War Troy Underworld Zeus

Nicola Bernardelli , Jean-Luc Langlais

Ulysses according to Homer [Ulysse d’après l’œuvre d’Homère]

This book may provide the first approach to The Odyssey of Homer. The classical text, simply and entertainingly retold, is supported by illustrations that vividly depict various ancient characters, particularly ancient monsters. Although the story is written in prose and utterly devoid of Homer’s poetics or certain secondary storylines, it retells the plot close to the original text. The simplicity of the narration, fidelity to the Greek source and colorful illustrations should attract you(...)

YEAR: 2016

COUNTRY: France

TAGS: Argos (Dog) Athena / Athene Calypso Charybdis Circe Homer Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Penelope Polyphemus Poseidon Scylla Sirens Telemachus Trojan War

Adam Bahdaj

Where’s Your Home, Telemachus? [Gdzie twój dom, Telemachu?]

Based on: Katarzyna Marciniak, Elżbieta Olechowska, Joanna Kłos, Michał Kucharski (eds.), Polish Literature for Children & Young Adults Inspired by Classical Antiquity: A Catalogue, Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, Warsaw: University of Warsaw, 2013, 444 pp., online: http://omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/omc_catalogue.Maciek Łańko, whom the reader knows from Bahdaj’s novel Telemach w dżinsach[Telemachus in Jeans] moves to his uncle Waldemar’s house located in the nice and quiet v(...)

YEAR: 1982

COUNTRY: Poland

TAGS: Homer Odyssey Telemachus Trojan War