Odyssey/Legacy

Classical	Renaissance	Romanticism	Victorian	Modernist	Contemporary	AtO

Ulysses and the Sirens, Herbert James Draper, 1909.

Poetry and lyrics inspired by Homer’s Odyssey.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• “Ulysses”

Margaret Atwood

• “Circe, Mud Poems” (excerpt)

Constantine Cavafy

• “Ithaka”

Donald Fagen

• “True Companion”

Ovid

• “Penelope to Ulysses”

Derek Walcott

• “Journey”