The Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. What should have been a simple return became a decade of trials shaped by gods monsters and human mistakes.

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In the final portion of the epic Greek poem “The Odyssey,” the king of Ithaca, who has been away fighting the Trojan War, finally makes it back home 20 years later, only to find that interlopers have ...

Cathal McGuinness is a recent college graduate from Dublin, Ireland. He has been writing short stories and articles from the age of 15. He was awarded the George Dempsey prize for English Prose ...