About The Odyssey Retold.
Homer's Odyssey is the greatest story ever told about leaving home and becoming someone — and almost nobody reads it. The retelling fixes that.
What it is
Eighty-eight daily two-minute chapters, delivered by email each morning, with a web home where readers re-read, reflect, and go deeper. Free at the point of entry. No paywall, ever. Written from scratch by a single author rather than translated from the Greek — closer to a retelling than a rendering, with the structural truths preserved and the hexameter scaffolding stripped away.
Most translations of the Odyssey ask twelve thousand lines of you. This asks two minutes a morning for eighty-eight days.
Who's behind it
Teilo Berquier — writer, coach, former tech executive, husband, father. He spent the last two years stripping the Odyssey down to its structural truths and rewriting it in language a commuter can metabolise between sips of coffee. The retelling is part of a wider body of work he calls The Odyssey Path, a narrative-driven approach to personal development.
Find his coaching practice at coachteilo.com.
Where it sits
The Retold is the widest front door to The Odyssey Path. More universal than the Modern Man book, less committed than the Brotherhood community, no gender gate. A reader signs up for a free daily email; by day eighty-eight, they know Teilo's voice, they've experienced his thinking at depth, and the step into coaching, the book, or the Brotherhood is already built.
Why now
Christopher Nolan's Odyssey film — starring Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong'o, Zendaya, and Charlize Theron — releases July 2026. The oldest survival story in Western literature is about to have a cultural moment, and most people watching the film won't have read the source. The Retold is here for them.
What's coming
The platform is built for what comes next: future seasons (the Iliad, Virgil's Aeneid, Gilgamesh, Dante), audio versions, printed editions, and coaching products layered on top. The architecture supports the long arc — this is not a one-off.