One big chart: deaths in the Odyssey

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 story If 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...

By Nick Evershed