# Poems/literature based on The Odyssey? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 27, 2005, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poems-literature-based-on-the-odyssey/332945 "2005-11-27T19:47:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poems-literature-based-on-the-odyssey/332945/21 "2005-11-29T01:38:02Z")
Nikos Kazantzakis wrote a [sequel](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671202472/102-7020714-0112921?v=glance&n=283155&s=books&v=glance) ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poems-literature-based-on-the-odyssey/332945/22 "2005-11-29T01:44:59Z")
> [@Steve Wright](#): > > SF writer Brian Stableford, early in his career, produced the _Dies Irae_ trilogy, the first two volumes of which (_The Days of Glory_ and _In the Kingdom of the Beasts_) are very obviously the Iliad and the Odyssey transposed into a science-fictional setting. So is David Drake’s _Cross the Stars_ a retelling of _The Odyssey_, and part of John Moressy’s _Star Brat_ is a retelling of Ulysses return to Ithaqua. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poems-literature-based-on-the-odyssey/332945/23 "2005-11-29T01:54:12Z")
What, no mention of the original rip-off of the _Odyssey_? I present to you Virgil’s _Aeneid_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poems-literature-based-on-the-odyssey/332945.md?page=1)