Every Odyssey adaptation, in one list
All 18 of them, spanning 1922 to 2026 — translations, films, TV, novels, an album, a graphic novel, and a game. Grouped by how you’d take each one in, oldest to newest inside each group. Every entry has its own guide. (A couple of hidden doors aren’t listed here. The site rewards the observant, like the epic does.)
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Ulysses — James Joyce1922
The boss fight.
The Robert Fitzgerald Translation1961
Skilled in all ways of contending.
The Richmond Lattimore Translation1965
The man of many ways.
The Robert Fagles Translation1996
The man of twists and turns.
Cold Mountain — Charles Frazier1997
A nostos in Civil War gray.
The Penelopiad — Margaret Atwood2005
Short, furious, and the maids finally speak.
Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters — Rick Riordan2006
I’m literally twelve.
The Odyssey — Gareth Hinds (graphic novel)2010
The whole epic, painted.
The Emily Wilson Translation2017
Tell me about a complicated man.
Circe — Madeline Miller2018
The witch gets the mic.
Ithaca — Claire North2022
Penelope’s suitor years as a political thriller.
The Adventures of Odysseus — Schuff & Ruiz Johnson (graphic novel)2026
Your kid’s first wine-dark sea.
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The Odyssey — NBC Miniseries1997
The whole journey, earnestly told.
O Brother, Where Art Thou?2000
Damn! We’re in a tight spot!
The Return2024
The homecoming, stripped of every monster and god.
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey2026
The seat is shaking. This is the event.
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Asked about, and not the pick
These come up whenever the Odyssey does, so leaving them out silently would be its own kind of dishonest. None of them is on the list above, and here is the actual reason for each.
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013 film)
Yes, at two removes. It adapts the Percy Jackson book that runs on the Odyssey, and it keeps the good parts of that: Polyphemus guarding the prize, and a Charybdis big enough to swallow the ship. But the prize is the Golden Fleece, which is Jason's story and not Odysseus's; Circe's island shrinks to the name of a theme park; and Scylla gets a passing mention. The book it adapts is on the list above with all of it intact, which makes the film the long way round to a shorter book.
Or compare them on one question
How much of the gods do you actually get? lines up every adaptation from the ones where Olympus runs the plot to the ones that cut the gods entirely — the axis the retellings disagree on most.