In the first half of the year, sales of the poem in Italy saw an overall increase of 25 per cent, spread across 43 different editions. The reprints by Einaudi and Ippocampo, which, as reported in Il Foglio, state: “The film has brought back into the limelight one of the seminal works of our literary culture, all too often confined to the confines of the classroom.”

Christopher Nolan’s film “The Odyssey” is sending Korean readers back to Homer, driving a sharp surge in sales of the ancient epic and related titl...

Christopher Nolan’s film “The Odyssey” is sending Korean readers back to Homer, driving a sharp surge in sales of the ancient epic and related titl...