Presented by the Classics program and the Classics Club, the annual day-long reading of a Homeric epic will feature a series of faculty mini-lectures at 6 p.m., highlighting the way the Odyssey plays with Greek myths and the way later adaptations play with the Odyssey. The earliest pieces of literature in Europe, the Iliad and the Odyssey have inspired countless works of art and literature from ancient statues to Hollywood blockbusters. The timeless themes of cleverness, honor, family what it means to be civilized, and the hero’s journey explore the nature of our shared humanity across boundaries of time, space, and culture.