I had planned on opening this article mentioning that Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey were probably the oldest named works that I have yet read. Of course, a brief peek at Wikipedia will tell one that the Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια or Odýsseia in Classical Attic Greek) is the second-oldest extant work of Western literature, while the Iliad (Ἰλιάς or Iliás) is the oldest. Scholars believe the Odyssey was composed … Continue reading Homer’s Odysseus and the Mythology of the Sirens