Date: Sunday 5 April

Time: 4.30pm

Venue: The Mint, 10 Macquarie St, Sydney

Cost: Free Entry (Bookings Essential)

Contact: 02 9750 0440

Language: English

Homer’s Odyssey and Its Adventures Through History
Co-ordinated by Associate Professor Vrasidas Karalis
Department of Modern Greek, University of Sydney

One of the greatest works of world literature has been Homer’s Odyssey, which has offered constant inspiration to countless artists, scholars and ordinary readers. This lecture discusses crucial aspects of the Odyssey from antiquity to the modern world and explores its various representations through art, poetry and cinema.

The Odyssey is the archetypal poem of the western world, dedicated to the insatiable hunger for exploration, conquest and adventure while at the same establishing a moral metaphor about the wanderings of the human soul towards its ultimate destination.