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Odysseus Had an Angle on Every Island. Your Kid Needs One for Every School.

Homer figured out the 'why us' essay three thousand years before colleges did.

Jul 27, 2026

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Odysseus killing the suitors."

Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey,’ which I saw with my husband over the weekend, has put the poem back in front of a lot of people who, like me, read it years ago and didn’t quite metabolize what it was a…

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Odysseus Had an Angle on Every Island. Your Kid Needs One for Every School.

Odysseus Had an Angle on Every Island. Your Kid Needs One for Every School.

Homer figured out the 'why us' essay three thousand years before colleges did.

Keep reading with a 7-day free trial

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