Why we still care about the ‘Odyssey’
Ahead of major film release, UChicago scholars discuss gods, heroes, casting and why Homer’s epic matters 3,000 years later
Carolina López-Ruiz
Title: Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Religions and Mythologies in the Divinity School, the Department of Classics, and the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures; also in the College
Expertise: Ancient Mediterranean Religions, Archaeology, Classics
Departmental website: https://divinity.uchicago.edu/directory/carolina-lopez-ruiz
Ada Palmer
Title: Associate Professor of Early Modern European History and the College
Expertise: Censorship, Classics, Disability, Fantasy, Futurism, Genre fiction, Science fiction
Departmental website: https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/ada-palmer
Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer
Title: Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Classics and the Program in Gender Studies; Director, The Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge
Expertise: Ancient Rome
Departmental website: https://classics.uchicago.edu/people/shadi-bartsch
Lab website: https://sifk.uchicago.edu/