The story of the wily and fearless Odysseus, who survived countless astonishing and dangerous adventures on the way home from Troy, and his faithful, beautiful and strong-willed wife Penelope is known to everyone—bloodthirsty cyclopes and sweet-voiced sirens, the wise sorceress Circe, and the mysterious lotophages... No work of world literature has sparked so many arguments and discussions, or served as the basis for such an unimaginable number of scientific theories as Homer’s "Odyssey." Where did the so striking "female gaze" in the "Odyssey" come from? Did Homer encode it in the image of the "sea people"—the inhabitants of Minoan Crete, and if he did, then where did he know about them? These are only a few of the questions that readers and researchers still have to answer regarding Homer’s mysterious masterpiece...