Synonymous with adventure and wandering from the beginnings of Greek and world literature, the "Odyssey" has experienced countless translations and adaptations and has traveled from school classrooms to movie theaters and wherever else the imagination roams. Here, Alexandra Mitsiali, with her philological competence and her literary sensitivity, transfers the Homeric epic to modern Greek, adorned and refined in fifteen-syllable verse, drawing on the popular tradition and its subsequent transformation into refined language, from Solomos to Palamas and from there to Seferis and Ritsos, infusing the ancient text with emblematic verses of our great poets."
Yannis Doukas