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The film is set to feature an all-star cast including Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya and Robert Pattinson

Jorge Rivera-Herrans’s musical sensation Epic is just one of a series of works making a splash on the online platform

Tim Price’s play links a 1980s coal miner with Odysseus in an affecting if heavy-handed mythological drama

From immortalised classical epics to lesser-known myths

After numerous delays, the Odyssey finally sets sail from Belfast for three-and-a-half years – but what drives people to spend a fortune living full-time on luxury liners?

Stephen Fry’s Odyssey is the final instalment in his retellings of Greek myth that began with Mythos. Here, Fry tells us, we move away from the turbulent creation of the gods and the swashbuckling heroes of old, into “a profoundly human story”: a tale of one man’s journey home “to…

The last in Fry’s four-book retelling of the Greek myths is relatable and full of humour

This comedy puts the audience inside the giant wooden ruse, alongside a cast who add fizz to a show with real interest in the classical age

The writer pays tribute to the late author, reflecting on how Kadare’s use of the ancient past to make sense of the present renders him essential reading