Websites
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Jefferson County Schools has created a terrific "Jeopardy" style trivia game for students to study the Odyssey. Categories include "Gods and Goddesses." "Mere Mortals," "Monsters," "Travel and Tourism," and "Misc." (Linked file is in PowerPoint.)
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GoogleLit Trips is a website devoted to helping teachers and students explore literature by using Google Earth. Check out this Google Earth map of Homer's travels
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Homer probably took some poetic license with his geography. Still, here's a rough idea of where some of Odysseus' episodes may have taken place.
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If we linked to our learning guides every time we mentioned one of these guys, we'd get carpal tunnel. Here's a link to Shmoop's Greek and Roman mythology guide—you might notice some familiar names.
Movie or TV Productions
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This is actually a 1967 adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses. Neat!
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Well, Odysseus is a little cartoonish. This 1987 show is in full 2D
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This Odyssey (1992-1994) puts its hero in a coma and makes him work his way home from a magical land called "Downworld."
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This 1997 version of the Odyssey was produced by Coppola, stars Isabella Rossellini and Bernadette Peters, and is pitched by IMDB as full of "bronzed muscles gleaming." Say no more.
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In 2000, the Coen brothers gave us O Brother, Where Art Thou: the Odyssey set in the deep south. With George Clooney. And convicts.
Historical Documents
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This is an absolutely amazing piece of parchment from the third century BCE containing lines from Book 20.
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Here are some more really, really old fragments of the Odyssey—and some other ancient Greek works.
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Here's another wee piece of Book 17. Aren't you glad you can pull a whole copy off the shelf?
Video
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Here's Odysseus killing some scantily clad suitors in the 1954 adaptation with Kirk Douglass.
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Here's Odysseus messing with his servants in Troy, the 2004 "adaptation" of the Iliad.
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Here are some scholars talking about an ancient Greek vase painted with an image of Odysseus escaping Polyphemos' cave. Neat!
Audio
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In this genius-grant-winning project, a therapist counsels returning war veterans by talking about the Odyssey.
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Here's Cream singing "Tales of Brave Ulysses."
Images
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… when I stuff wax in your ears. Here's a vase with Odysseus tied to the mast.
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Sorry, we warned you. Here's Odysseus consulting with Teiresias.
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We did this minimalist vase of Odysseus hiding out under a ram.
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Here's Odysseus slaying the suitors.
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Penelope and Telemachos having a little mother/ son moment.