Nearly three millennia after Homer composed his tale of wandering and homecoming, a new generation is finding its way back to the ancient poem through the unlikely portal of an IMAX theater. The film adaptation of The Odyssey has done what educators and publishers have long struggled to accomplish: it has made audiences hungry for the original, not satisfied by the adaptation. In this unexpected cultural convergence, cinema and classical literature are proving to be companions rather than competitors, suggesting that the oldest stories still carry a gravity capable of pulling us toward their s