Every Odyssey adaptation, in one list

All 17 of them, spanning 1922 to 2026 — translations, films, TV, novels, an album, a graphic novel, and a game. Grouped by how you’d take each one in, oldest to newest inside each group. Every entry has its own guide. (A couple of hidden doors aren’t listed here. The site rewards the observant, like the epic does.)

Read

• Ulysses — James Joyce1922

  The boss fight.

• The Robert Fitzgerald Translation1961

  Skilled in all ways of contending.

• The Richmond Lattimore Translation1965

  The man of many ways.

• The Robert Fagles Translation1996

  The man of twists and turns.

• Cold Mountain — Charles Frazier1997

  A nostos in Civil War gray.

• The Penelopiad — Margaret Atwood2005

  Short, furious, and the maids finally speak.

• Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters — Rick Riordan2006

  I’m literally twelve.

• The Odyssey — Gareth Hinds (graphic novel)2010

  The whole epic, painted.

• The Emily Wilson Translation2017

  Tell me about a complicated man.

• Circe — Madeline Miller2018

  The witch gets the mic.

• Ithaca — Claire North2022

  Penelope’s suitor years as a political thriller.

Watch

• The Odyssey — NBC Miniseries1997

  The whole journey, earnestly told.

• O Brother, Where Art Thou?2000

  Damn! We’re in a tight spot!

• The Return2024

  The homecoming, stripped of every monster and god.

• Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey2026

  The seat is shaking. This is the event.

Listen

• EPIC: The Musical2022–2024

  The gateway drug: two hours of songs, free everywhere.

Play

• Hades / Hades II — Supergiant Games2020–2025

  Greek myth you live in, one run at a time.

Or compare them on one question

How much of the gods do you actually get? lines up every adaptation from the ones where Olympus runs the plot to the ones that cut the gods entirely — the axis the retellings disagree on most.

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