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The Odyssey has more than twenty women in it. You were told the story of the one man.
The poem of the homecoming, reread from the side of those left waiting. The Odyssey They Never Told You.
Giving it as a gift? The hardcover is the one to give: $29.99.
Why people give it
- Hardcover: the kind of book that stays on the shelf.
- More than twenty women of the Odyssey, each with her name and her line.
- Read it with Homer open beside you: every claim carries its book and line.
How the book works
In Book 1, Penelope comes downstairs to ask the bard for a different song. Her son silences her in front of everyone: speech, he says, is men’s business.
μῦθος δ᾽ ἄνδρεσσι μελήσει / πᾶσι, μάλιστα δ᾽ ἐμοίA Page That Didn’t Fit
There’s a passage from the Odyssey that never made it into the book. Leave me your email and it’s yours right away.
The classics they never told you
The books
The Odyssey They Never Told You
The poem of the homecoming, reread from the side of those left waiting.
The Trojan War Trilogy
All three in one volume: the full case file.
The Iliad They Never Told You
The war, reread from the side of those who paid for it.
The War Homer Left Out
What tradition added to Homer, and why.
The Letters No One Answered
Penelope, Medea, Ariadne and Dido write to the men who left. Nobody wrote back.
The Body That Ran
The bodies that flee through Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
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The method
About Ariadna Kastri
Date every layer. Cite book and line, where you can see them. Ask who stood to gain. And never rule on your behalf: two readings on the table, and the verdict is yours.
Write to me
I read everything that arrives, and I answer. If a passage doesn't add up, if you've caught a mistake, if you want to argue a verdict: that address exists for exactly that. A method that asks to be checked has to answer the door when someone checks.