the odyssey is just about a guy trying to get home
We love to talk about The Odyssey as an epic—monsters, gods, adventures. But strip it down, and it’s just about a man desperate to get back to his wife, his son, and his life.
For middle-aged readers, that hits different. After all the detours, the distractions, the mistakes, what we really want is often simple: home. Homer might not have realized it, but his epic is one of the earliest stories about midlife longing, regret, and the hope that it’s not too late to return.
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