Dan Snow narrates his own retelling of Homer's Odyssey, following Odysseus's route across the Mediterranean. He visits real-world locations, from the ruins of Troy in Turkey to possible sites of the Cyclops' cave and Circe's island near Sicily, exploring how myth and history intersect. This episode is a storytelling journey that brings the ancient epic to life while grounding it in geography and archaeology.
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Myth Meets History: The Odyssey's Real-World Roots
Dan Snow's journey demonstrates that many episodes in the Odyssey have plausible geographic and archaeological links, turning myth into a map of actual Mediterranean locations.