Written by Anna Ziegler and directed by Maggie Burrows, 'Janeiad' tells the stories of two women, centuries apart, who each ...

The author explores the roles and personalities of Homer’s characters—the Greek beauty Helen, the enslaved girl Briseis, the Trojan royal Hecuba, the witch Circe, Odysseus’ patient wife, Penelope, and ...

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has an ensemble of a star-studded cast, including Matt Damon, Robert Pattinson, Anne Hathaway ...

Greek mythology and its stories of love, power, betrayal, and tragedy have fascinated many generations. But let’s also take a ...

The Odyssey – the latest cinematic endeavor from Christopher Nolan – has already sparked excitement even though its release is over a year away.

The myth of the goddess Eurydice, in Greek mythology the wife of Orpheus, is a compelling one for Ziegler. She cited fellow playwright Sarah Ruhl’s “Eurydice” as “a really important play ...

9. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood. This retelling is unique and Atwood gives this tale of Greek mythology a new and exciting twist. In Homer's account in The Odyssey, Penelope, wife of Odysseus ...

Novels that retell myths, particularly Greek ones, ... Penelope, Ariadne, Psyche, Phaedra and Medea, among others. Authors are experimenting in other ways as well.

Novels that explore Greek mythology from the point of view of “silenced” women now constitute their own popular genre: Madeline Miller’s “Circe” (2018), Natalie Haynes’s “A Thousand ...