Myth and Musings

Home and Homelessness in Epic, Part 4

Part 4 of this series is an overview of “home” and “homeless(ness)” and a closing personal comment.

In Part 3 of this series I look at what “home” and “homeless(ness) is for Baby Suggs, holy in Toni Morrison’s Beloved

The notion of “home” is multilayered. In this essay we look at Homer peeling back the many layers of what “home” is for Odysseus.