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The Lotus-eaters in Popular Culture The story of the lotus-eaters in Homer’s “Odyssey” has been inspired by the stories in Ancient Greek sources, such as the Homeric poem “Odyssey.” This is one of the ...
UPDATE: I just read the Tennyson poem about the lotus eaters, recommended by a reader. It’s great, and it illuminates the philosophical and moral questions this episode from The Odyssey raises.
For millennia, the epic poems of Homer have profoundly shaped Western literature and thought with their timeless tales of ...
The trailer for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey shows Telemachus looking for Odysseus, fitting with Homer's tale of father ...
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The first instalment of the National Theatre’s ambitious, multi-site Odyssey project sees Odysseus run ashore in Stoke-on-Trent ...
Billed as a contemporary take on what is a brief episode in Homer’s “Odyssey,” Miller’s piece tells the story of Odysseus’ storm-tossed sailors cast up on an unknown island on their way ...
Lotus Eaters: Film Review This feature debut from Irish writer-director Alexandra McGuinnes is less a succinct narrative than a meandering portrait of several ultra-rich, ultra-empty ...
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2, episode 4 review: "Among the Lotus Eaters" undermines its own premise of value in self-identity.
The Lotus Eaters: A Chamber CabaretPerhaps the show tried to cover just a little too much. At times The Odyssey songs in a semi-classical style became difficult to follow, but the Adelaide Aurora ...