Slow down, read closely, think and discuss – that’s what we are asking you to do in this club. Explore the women and femme fatale, from Sirens to Circe, that entranced Odysseus on his home coming to Ithaca.

Turn off your smart phones, step away from the hectic pace of life, and discuss words. Includes refreshments and printouts.

Dr Debbie Challis is Creative Producer of the Portico Library and a cultural historian with an expertise on the reception of classical antiquity in the nineteenth century. She is currently researching and writing about the life of a mid Victorian female artist called Mary Severn. She is an expert on the reception of Greek myth on Alex Andreou’s “Podyssey” and her work can be found on drdebbiechallis.com.