The World of the Odyssey & Other Greek Myths (PRE-ORDER)

Odysseus spent ten years getting home from Troy. Adam Simpson has put the whole journey into a single panoramic scene, and you get to piece it back together.The artwork gathers the sweep of the Odyssey — gods, monsters and mortals, wine-dark sea and cloud-topped Olympus — and then keeps going, pulling in the wider canon of Greek myth around it. Athene and Zeus are here, and so are Pandora, Prometheus, Icarus and the Minotaur, each woven into the composition rather than simply lined up. There is a great deal to find, which is exactly what you want from a thousand pieces.Every reference in the picture is explained in the fold-out poster, which opens with an introduction to the Odyssey and then works through the characters one by one — so the puzzle doubles as a genuinely useful route into classical mythology.