No Man's Lands: One Man's Odyssey Through the Odyssey Book

Introduction: A Long Story     1
No Greater Claim to Our Credence: On the Isle of the Nymph Calypso     13
Something to Say for Yourself-or, Among the Oar-Loving Phaeacins     31
Troy, Backstory Capital of the World     43
Losing to the Twelfth Seed: Surprised by the Cicones     60
Acropolis Now: Athens and Other Places Actually on the Map     74
A Drink with an Umbrella in It: The Honeyed Fruit of the Lotus     94
Where No-Man Has Gone Before: In the Cyclops's Cave     110
"Help! I Need Somebody!": The Hospitality of the Wind King     126
Run Away! Run Away!: Catastrophe in the Land of the Laestrygonians     141
Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered: In The Neighborhood of Circe     155
Regarding the Journey to Hell, and How Upon Arriving There I Found It Closed     171
Hold Me Back!: The Island of the Sirens     187
The Truth About Consequences: The Choice Between Scylla and Charybdis     201
Everyone Loves a Hero: The Cattle of the Sun     213
Among the Phaeacians II: Corfu and the Journey by Night     224
What These Ithacas Mean     237
Home at Last: Penelope and Odysseus     252
Epiloque: Souvenirs     266
Translations and Bibliography     275
Acknowledgments     285