Volume 69 Issue 1 -

Sucking the marrow of life

By Amy Yang / August 30, 2026

“These forgetful spirits hope for resurrection / into bodies. They start to want to see the sky.” – The Aeneid, […]

By Emma Braho / August 30, 2026

Does reading the text of Homer’s epic really help us Ody-See more clearly? Sing to me muse, of a buy-one-get-one-free

Excerpts from an alternate ending to The Odyssey—found in a trailer, buried under SparkNotes sheets and Cheeto dust

A professor and a student walk out of a movie theater

By Emon Hossain / August 30, 2026

To those who take an odyssey, five days a week

By Alya Barker / August 30, 2026

Sing to me, oh Muse of a child so cherished in her world set to perish, Hades’ eyes dark

By Grisha Sharma / August 30, 2026

Calliope Voice like a salved bruise, I sing atop the heavens, Chanting a sweet breeze Agalope

Tell him, O Muses, of how I toiled and longed for thousands of days. Awaiting a battered figure, a

The value of sequels today and in BCE

Why the film adaptation’s “real-world” approach is an epic failure