The story of the cunning and fearless Odysseus, who experienced many amazing and dangerous adventures on his way home from Troy, and his faithful wife, the beautiful and strong-willed Penelope, is known to all – bloodthirsty cyclopes and sweet-voiced sirens, the wise sorceress Circe and the mysterious lotus-eaters…
No work of world literature has provoked as much debate and discussion, nor has it served as the basis for such an unimaginable number of scientific theories, as Homer's "Odyssey".
Where did this striking "female perspective" in the "Odyssey" come from? Did Homer encode, in the image of the "sea" people of the Phaeacians, the inhabitants of Minoan Crete, and if so - how did he know about them? These are just a few of the questions that readers and researchers of Homer's mysterious masterpiece are yet to answer…
