About the author
Joel P. Christensen is an American classicist whose teaching and research concentrate on ancient Greek language, Homeric epic, myth, and the ways classical stories continue to circulate outside the academy.
Why Odysseus? follows the hero across ancient literature, translation, philosophy, novels, film, and music. Christensen treats myth as an ongoing practice of making worlds through stories, not as a fixed body of plots with one authoritative interpretation.
Where to start
Start with Why Odysseus? for a focused route through Homer, ancient receptions, translation, and the modern afterlives of one unusually adaptable hero.
