He Just Wanted to Go Home—On Reading Homer’s The Odyssey

The great theme of The Odyssey—Homer’s masterful sequel to The Iliad—indeed, the predominant theme of the story itself, is homecoming, the imperative need we all have to get home, to arrive safely at the place we love. If only I can get back home to where it all began, the setting where everything starts, then I shall find happiness at last! Such is the common ground, the soil where the seeds of…

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