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.

Mythology drew me in because it speaks to something deep within us—something beyond time and culture. These stories aren’t just entertainmen

One of the many lessons of mythology is that change is how we adapt and survive. We, at ISM, always welcome feedback from the community and

The image catapulted me into the myth of the minotaur; a beast born from revenge, a princess (Ariadne) who sacrifices everything for a hero

The heroine invites us to let go of fear, blame, and right/wrong thinking. She invites us to believe that change can come into being easily