Rodrigo Ruiz

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Rodrigo Ruiz pairs a Billboard-charting composing career with rigorous scholarship in myth, literature, and musicology. A Universal Edition composer and Joseph Campbell Scholar, he has presented on Homer and Wagner at venues from Mythic Musings to the Mythologium. His catalogue spans award-winning recordings on Signum Classics, the opera libretto Achilleus, and published poetry and translations.

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Oct 15, 2025 ∙ 11 min

What Modern Retellings Miss About The Odyssey

Right now Homer’s epic poem is everywhere: from Uberto Pasolini’s The Return and Jorge Rivera-Herrans’s EPIC: The Musical to Christopher Nolan’s upcoming The Odyssey (2026) and literary retellings like Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad. This isn’t new. Fascination with Homer’s homecoming epic is centuries—millennia!—old, and its influence so vast it’s impossible to list.

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