Adam J. Goldwyn is Associate Professor of English at North Dakota State University, USA. He is the author of Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and Witness Literature in Byzantium: Narrating Slaves, Prisoners, and Refugees (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), and co-editor of Mediterranean Modernism: Intercultural Exchange and Aesthetic Development (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

Chapter 1 Homer and the Jews on the Cusp of World War 2.- Chapter 2 Nihilism, Thoughtlessness, and the Bourgeois Odysseus: Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, and the Failure of Enlightenment Humanism.- Chapter 3 Reflections on a Damaged Life: Hermann Broch's Mythical Method and Rachel Bespaloff's On the Iliad.- Chapter 4 Odysseus' (Memory) Scar: Geoffrey Hartman's Erich Auerbach's Odysseus.- Chapter 5 Hélène Cixous' and Daniel Mendelsohn's Postmemory Scars: The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century.