One big chart: deaths in the Odyssey

Source: www.theguardian.com · Section: headlines · Bias: Center-Left · Published: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:31:32 GMT

Would you rather be eaten by a Cyclops or fall off a roof and break your neck? Here’s how the plucky adventurers perish during the course of the storyIf you have watched or read the Odyssey then you are aware that – SPOILER (do you need spoiler warnings on a 2,700-2,800 year-old poem?) – all of Odysseus’s crew die, some in strange and horrible ways.In this chart, I have tracked the decline in the crew over time, as well as the causes of death, until only one man is left. Continue reading...

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