English I: The Odyssey

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In April 2018, Homer's The Odyssey topped a BBC Culture poll on "100 Stories that Shaped the World." 

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• Fate
• Xenia / hospitality
• Gender dynamics
• Homegoing / journeys

• "Odysseus & Circe" Skyphos, 4th century, B.C.
• "Odysseus and Calypso" Arnold Böcklin, Swiss, 1883
• "Odysseus Leaves Nausicaa" Romare Bearden, American, 1979
• "Ulysses and the Sirens" Francesco Primaticcio, Italian, 1540s
• "Ulysses' Return" Giorgio De Chirico, Italian, 1968

Mosaic from Roman villa La Olmeda in Pedrosa de la Vega (Palencia, Castile and León, Spain), depicting Odysseus (Ulises), late 4th-5th centuries AD from Wikimedia Commons.

• 2001: A Space Odyssey​, 1968
• Alice in Wonderland, 1951, 2010
• Apollo 13, 1995
• As I Lay Dying, 2013
• Big Fish, 2003
• Castaway, 1986
• Cold Mountain, 2003
• Finding Nemo, 2003
• Gulliver's Travels, 1902, 1939, 1977, 2010
• The Hobbit, 2012-2014
• Labyrinth, 1986
• Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, 1993
• The Hunger Games, 2012
• The Martian, 2015
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?, 2000
• Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, 1987
• Star Wars: A New Hope, 1977
• The Time Traveler's Wife, 2009
• Ulysses' Gaze, 1995
• The Wizard of Oz, 1910, 1925, 1939, 1978 (The Wiz)

Poems:

• "The Cantos" / Ezra Pound, 1917
• "Omeros" / Derek Walcott, 1991
• "Ulysses" / Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1842

Novels - pre-20th century:

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll, 1865
• Gulliver's Travels / Jonathan Swift, 1726
• A True Story / Lucian of Samosata, 2nd century AD

Novels - 20th century:

• As I Lay Dying / William Faulkner, 1930
• Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions / Daniel Wallace, 1998
• Cold Mountain / Charles Frazier, 1997
• The Hobbit / J.R.R. Tolkien, 1937
• Homer's Daughter / Robert Graves, 1955
• The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel / Nikos Kazantzakis, 1938
• Ulysses / James Joyce, 1922
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz / L. Frank Baum, 1900

Plays - 20th century:

• The Odyssey / R. N. Sandberg, 1993

Novels - 21st century:

• The Hunger Games / Suzanne Collins, 2008
• The Lost Books of the Odyssey / Zachary Mason, 2010
• The Martian / Andy Weir, 2011
• An Orchestra of Minorities / Chigozie Obioma, 2019
• The Penelopiad / Margaret Atwood, 2005
• The Time Traveler's Wife / Audrey Niffenegger, 2003

• The Golden Apple (musical), 1954
• Home Sweet Homer (musical), 1976
• The Odyssey (prog. metal album), Symphony X, 2002
• The Odyssey (musical), 2015
• The Odyssey: A Rock Musical (musical), 2010
• Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (opera), 1639-1640

• The Odyssey (miniseries), 1997
• Prison Break, season 5, 2017
• The Simpsons, "Tales from the Public Domain" season 13, episode 14, 2002
• Star Trek: The Original Series, 1966-1970
• Ulysses 31 (宇宙伝説ユリシーズ31, Ulysse 31) (French-Japanese animated series), 1981-1982

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