I’ve never died… surprisingly, and so I’ve never been to the Underworld. But then again, Odysseus hasn’t died and yet he finds himself with the 24 men he has left travelling to the end of the world in order to get his prophecy from Teiresias, a blind Theban prophet (though, I’m…
Tags: Hades, John Flaxman, Khamsina, Khamsina Calypso Odysseus, Odysseus, Odyssey, Royal Academy of Arts, West End‘Throwing off his rags, the resourceful Odysseus leaped on to the great threshold with his bow and full quiver and poured out the swift arrows at his feet. ‘The match that was to seal your fate is over,’ he called out to the Suitors. ‘Now for another target which no…
Tags: Khamsina, Khamsina Calypso Odysseus, musical, Odysseus, Odyssey, Odyssey The Musical, West EndThe epic by Homer is an intense story of nostos (homecoming), kleos (honour) and dunamis (strength). It follows the journey of one man, Odysseus and his terrible struggle to maintain his own life and that of his men on his way back from Troy as well as the trouble that…
Tags: Broadway, Homer, Khamsina, musical, Odysseus, Odyssey, Odyssey The Musical, West EndMonday 21st May saw the end of my first year university exams and with little sleep but excitement for the freedom to come I walked into my Greek Literature exam clutching three black pens (because you always need more than enough) and my ID. What now seems rather ironic is…
Tags: Khamsina, Odysseus, Odyssey The Musical, PressureHere’s some background Calypso was a nymph that lived alone on an island which is now supposed to be Malta. As Odysseus was returning from the War of Troy he rested with his companions on the Island of the Sun God. He was previously told by Tiresias in the Underworld…
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