No Other Odysseus!

Here is a collection of links to materials on Odysseus and the Odyssey. If you want to hear more about the Odyssey or Odysseus  in person or in real time, I provide most zoom lectures gratis and will waive fees for most public schools. Contact joelchristensen@gc.cuny.edu.

Rogue Classicist is keeping track of all current Odyssey discourse here.

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Books and Articles related to the Odyssey

Why Odysseus? Survivor, Scoundrel, (Anti)hero comes out from Palgrave Macmillan in July 2026. It is available for preorder.

The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer’s Odyssey was released this year and can be ordered in print or electronically

The Many-Minded Man by Joel Christensen | eBook | Cornell University Press

Other Media
Some academic articles related to the Odyssey

2026 Reading Homer in the Age of Odysseus: on Bakker’s Cambridge Commentary on Odyssey IX (2025) and Burgess’ The Travels of Odysseus (Oxford, 2025)

2022 “Shepherds, Fathers, and Ships: Ancient Greek Leadership Metaphors and Some Consequences,” Science et Esprit 74: 164–79.

2021 “Beautiful Bodies, Beautiful Minds: Some Applications of Disability Studies to Homer.” Classical World 114.4: 365–393.

2020 Review of S. Pulleyn, Odyssey 1: Introduction, Translation, Commentary (Oxford, 2019), JHS

2019 “Revising Athena’s Rage: Kassandra and the Homeric Appropriation of Nostos.” YAGE 3: 88–116.

2018 “The Clinical Odyssey: Odysseus’ Apologoi and Narrative Therapy.” Arethusa 51: 1–31.

2018 “Human Cognition and Narrative Closure: The Odyssey’s Open-End.”  In The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Cognitive Theory, Peter Meineck, ed.  Routledge. 2018: 139–155.

2018 “Learned Helplessness, the Structure of the Telemachy and Odysseus’ Return.” in conference proceedings, Psychology and the Classics, Jeroen Lauwers, Jan Opsomer and Hedwig Schwall (eds.): 129–141.

2015 (with E. T. E. Barker) “Odysseus’ Nostos and the Odyssey’s Nostoi.” G. Scafoglio (ed.). Studies on the Greek Epic Cycle.  Philologia Antiqua, 2015: 87–112.

Public Writing related to the Odyssey