Award-winning graphic artist Gareth Hinds masterfully reinterprets a story of heroism, adventure, and high action that has been told and retold for more than 2,500 years-though never quite like this. I don’t know what translation we read, but we needed a translation of it. I wish this had been around when I was wading through The Odyssey in high school (and maybe college I can’t remember).

The text is my own adaptation, based on several different translations. Somerville, Mass., Candlewick Press, 2010. Gareth Hinds undertakes the task of adapting The Odyssey, the tale of Odysseus’s long journey home after the Trojan War, into graphic novel format. It retells the complete story of Odysseus adventures in 250 pages of fully-painted art. Battling man-eating monsters, violent storms, and the supernatural seductions of sirens and sorceresses, Odysseus will need all his strength and cunning-and a little help from Mount Olympus-to make his way home and seize his kingdom from the schemers who seek to wed his queen and usurp his throne. Hinds, Gareth, 1971- and Homer, The Odyssey: A Graphic Novel. Instead, he offends the sea god, Poseidon, who dooms him to years of shipwreck and wandering. Vivid and exciting, this graphic novel is a worthy new interpretation of Homer’s epic.'-Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians seriesįresh from his triumphs in the Trojan War, Odysseus, King of Ithaca, wants nothing more than to return home to his family. 'Gareth Hinds brings The Odyssey to life in a masterful blend of art and storytelling. With bold imagery and an ear tuned to the music of Homer’s epic poem, Gareth Hinds reinterprets the ancient classic as it’s never been told before.

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