Demystifying the Odyssey

The Odyssey and Homer's Legacy

The Odyssey is considered to be the most beautiful literary work of the Western civilization, and Homer the first and the greatest poet ever.

Introducing Demystifying the Odyssey

The book Demystifying the Odyssey is interpreting Homer's epic in a unique and completely new way. For the first time in literature, this book explains the events and phenomena that Odysseus saw and experienced, and which were considered so far as a result of the poet's rich imagination.

Revelations About Odysseus' Adventures

So, this book reveals how Odysseus went to Hades, the kingdom of the dead souls; what are in reality Scylla and Charybdis; who were the sirens; how the Island of Aeolus, the ruler of the winds, actually floated; how Circe turned Odysseus's sailors into pigs and others.

Challenging Traditional Views

Besides that, this book also reveals the fallacy of the two and a half millennia long belief, dating back from the first historians Herodotus and Thucydides, according to which Odysseus was wandering the Mediterranean Sea. It further provides numerous proofs that Homer's hero was actually wandering the Adriatic.

For Readers of All Backgrounds

For all those readers who are familiar with ancient Greek literature, this book will be great news and quite a surprise. On the other hand, for those who have not been quite aware of the old Greek world, it will provide great knowledge on the first European civilization. In any case, this will surely be an interesting reading for all of them.