Skip to main content
UCL Logo Navigate back to homepage

Main navigation

  • Home
  • Study

    Study

    • Study at UCL
    • Prospective students
    • Current students
    • Languages and international education
    • Accommodation
    • Careers
    • Doctoral School
    • Immigration and visas
    • Student finances
    • Support and wellbeing
  • Research

    Research

    • Research at UCL
    • Engage with us
    • Explore our Research
    • Initiatives and networks
    • Research news
  • Engage

    Engage

    • Engage with UCL
    • Alumni
    • Business partnerships and collaboration
    • Global engagement
    • News and Media relations
    • Policy and political engagement
    • Schools and priority groups
    • Give to UCL
  • About

    About

    • About UCL
    • Who we are
    • Faculties
    • Governance
    • President and Provost
    • Strategy
    • UCL's Bicentenary
  • UCL Logo Active parent page: UCL Faculty of Arts & Humanities
    • Study
    • Research
    • Active parent page: Departments and Centres
    • About us
    • News
    • Events

2021 Odyssey Festival

Study guide

Breadcrumb trail

  • Faculty of Arts and Humanities
  • 2021: Homer's Odyssey

Faculty menu

  • 2021: Homer's Odyssey Study Guide
  • Current page: 2021 Odyssey Festival
  • 2021: Homer's Odyssey Living Archive
  • 2021: Odyssey Public Engagement Lecture Programme

Breadcrumb trail

  • Faculty of Arts and Humanities
  • ... (Additional navigation levels omitted.)
  • Past productions
  • 2021: Homer's Odyssey
  • 2021 Odyssey Festival

Odyssey Classics Play Poster

Link

This year’s Classical play was not a conventional stage performance of a Greek play. We decided to do something special with the text we had chosen to work on for this year: Homer’s Odyssey.

Living Archive

In response to the government’s announcement of national lockdown on 4th January, we decided not to move the play into an online format, but to produce something equally exciting and original: we created a ‘living archive’ of the Odyssey, which you can explore by clicking on the second link below. We also invited the general public to take part in this ‘living archive’, whose contributions you can browse by clicking on the first link. The page contains the contributors’ personal views on and reactions to the Odyssey

2021: Homer’s Odyssey Living Archive - Public Contributions

2021: Homer’s Odyssey Living Archive - Production Team

Public Engagement Programme

Study Guide

This Guide contains essays, short videos, and video recordings of the public lectures held on 8-12 February on the Odyssey and its reception

Feedback

Have you enjoyed the UCL Odyssey Festival 2021? Have you any recommendations, thoughts to share or questions to pose? Drop us a line!

Associated events:

Odyssey ‘Round the World’ (Tuesday, December 8, 2020 - Wednesday, December 9, 2020)

UCL footer

Visit

  • Bloomsbury Theatre and Studio
  • Library, Museums and Collections
  • UCL Maps
  • UCL Shop
  • Contact UCL

Students

  • Accommodation
  • Current Students
  • Moodle
  • Students' Union

Staff

  • Inside UCL
  • Staff Intranet
  • Work at UCL
  • Human Resources
UCL Logo

University College London

Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT

Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7679 2000

UCL social media menu

  • Link to Instagram
  • Link to LinkedIn
  • Link to Youtube
  • Link to TikTok
  • Link to Facebook
  • Link to Bluesky
  • Link to Threads
  • Link to Soundcloud
Here, it can happen.
Back to top

Essential

  • Disclaimer
  • Freedom of Information
  • Accessibility
  • Cookies
  • Privacy
  • Slavery statement
  • Log in

© 2026 UCL