The Odyssey by Homer is a famous epic written in ancient Greece sometime around 900-700 B.C., . The epic the Odyssey has been taught throughout the years since 300 B.C., the story was taught to Greek schoolchildren now in the year 2017 we are still learning from it. In my personal life I can connect so many things written in the Odyssey to things i've seen in movies and other aspects of pop culture. This essay will talk about three instances where Homer's the Odyssey has been closely referenced or cameoed in today's pop culture.

In the book “The Language of Literature”,book 12 of the Odyssey named “Sea Perils and Defeat” page 933 it talks about the sirens and them attempting to enchant the sailors. In the movie O Brother, Where Art