Telepylos, the land of the Laestrygonians, is one of the most perilous stops on Odysseus’s journey. These giant cannibals destroy almost his entire fleet by hurling boulders at the anchored ...

The Odyssey—one of the most enduring works in Western literature—was composed in the late 8th century BCE, during a transformative period in ancient Greek history.But it wasn’t written in ...