A High School Musical of the Iliad & Odyssey
The wine-dark sea, the Friday-night lights, and a boy so shifty they named him after no one.
Homer’s Οὖτις pun — the indefinite pronouns weaponized as proper names — run through a whole Odyssey: the Trojan War as a football game, the Cyclops as a one-eyed barista, the bow-and-axes trial as a dance-off. Two parts. Twenty-two songs. Choose your night.
The descent. A boy who can’t be caught takes the long way home — and loses everything he was running toward.
The return. Everything is lost and the porch light is dark — and somebody is coming to bring Nobody home.
Part One: Nobody Loses. → Part Two: Nobody Wins. · the name spans the whole sentence.
For teachers & students Free to perform, free to change — here are the bones ▸ Take the book and lyrics, write your own music, make it your own. No royalties, no gatekeeper. CC BY-SA 4.0.