The Latest Breaking News from Homer

Just when we thought we were safe, it’s that time of year again when goblins, ghosts and ghouls are prowling the streets and hiding under beds. With COVID-19 in retreat, trick-and-treaters will be out again extorting their goodies, and TV is brewing up its spookiest gruel yet.

The Acropolis Museum’s underground lab, the ancient Hadrian aqueduct and an arts festival in an old factory offer a more personal view of the Greek capital

The long-running series has famously built a reputation for forecasting our future.

In The Odyssey, an almost 3,000-year-old epic attributed to a poet known as Homer, the soldier Odysseus narrates most adventures in retrospect. The poem, which tells of Odysseus’ return from the Trojan War, is both the origin of our concept of nostalgia (from the Greek nostos meaning the journey home)…