Odyssey/Legacy

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Ulysses and the Sirens, Herbert James Draper, 1909.

Poetry and lyrics inspired by Homer’s Odyssey.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• “The Lotos-Eaters”
• “Ulysses”

Margaret Atwood

• “Circe, Mud Poems” (excerpt)

Constantine Cavafy

• “Ithaka”

Donald Fagen/Steely Dan

• “Home at Last”
• “True Companion”

Ovid

• “Penelope to Ulysses”

Derek Walcott

• “Journey”