Odyssey

You Can Read the Odyssey: Books 21-24

We finish the Odyssey together!

Sep 13 • Ascend Book Club

You Can Read the Odyssey: Books 17-20

The slaughter of the suitors is soon...

Sep 13 • Ascend Book Club

You Can Read the Odyssey: Books 13-16

Odysseus return to Ithaca

Sep 13 • Ascend Book Club

You Can Read the Odyssey: Books 9-12

Odysseus finally tells his story

Sep 12 • Ascend Book Club

You Can Read the Odyssey: Books 5-8

We continue our journey through Homer’s epic

Sep 12 • Ascend Book Club

You Can Read the Odyssey: Books 1-4

Join the Ascend Book Club and Read Homer with Us

Sep 12 • Ascend Book Club

115 Question & Answer Guide on the Odyssey

Preliminary questions, dramatis personae, and much more!

Sep 11 • Ascend Book Club

What the Odyssey Teaches Fathers about Raising Sons

Raising Telemachus: 7 Lessons on How a Boy Becomes a Man

Aug 7 • Ascend Book Club

A Cantankerous Review of the Odyssey Movie

Today on Ascend: The Great Books Podcast, Deacon Harrison Garlick delivers an unapologetically curmudgeonly critique of Christopher Nolan’s new film The…

Jul 27 • Ascend Book Club

46:48

The Truth Behind "Zeus' Law" in the Odyssey Movie

Revisiting the ancient practice of "xenia," guest-friendship

Jul 21 • Ascend Book Club

Is Penelope a Hero in the Odyssey?

Different Visions of the Heroic in Homer's Epic

Jul 17 • Ascend Book Club

Which Translation of the Odyssey Should You Read?

Comparing Five Popular Translations of the Odyssey

Jul 15 • Ascend Book Club

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