{"id":10,"date":"2026-09-25T18:55:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T18:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tadcrawford.com\/index.php\/on-wine-dark-seas\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T18:55:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T18:55:50","slug":"on-wine-dark-seas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.tadcrawford.com\/index.php\/on-wine-dark-seas\/","title":{"rendered":"On Wine-Dark Seas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">What happens after the hero comes home?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>On Wine-Dark Seas<\/em> continues the story of Odysseus after his return to Ithaca. Narrated by Telemachus to the bard Phemios, the novel looks beyond the legend to the human consequences of twenty years of war and wandering, a father and son separated for most of the son&#8217;s life, and a family trying to live with what happened before the homecoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The questions behind the story<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Who is Odysseus when the journey is over?<\/li><li>What does twenty years of absence do to a father and son?<\/li><li>Can a warrior return home without bringing the war with him?<\/li><li>How do Penelope, Telemachus, and Odysseus rebuild a family shaped by separation?<\/li><li>What is the difference between the legendary hero and the man who actually lived the story?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhorsepublishing.com\/9781510772588\/on-wine-dark-seas\/\">Explore On Wine-Dark Seas<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/on-wine-dark-seas-tad-crawford\/1142039334?ean=9781510772588\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">For readers of myth, family, and historical fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The novel is rooted in Greek myth but focuses on human relationships: fathers and sons, husbands and wives, war and homecoming, guilt and responsibility, memory and truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--2\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/tadcrawford.com\/\">Explore Tad Crawford&#8217;s Books<\/a><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens after the hero comes home? On Wine-Dark Seas continues the story of Odysseus after his return to Ithaca. Narrated by Telemachus to the bard Phemios, the novel looks beyond the legend to the human consequences of twenty years of war and wandering, a father and son separated for most of the son&#8217;s life, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tadcrawford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tadcrawford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tadcrawford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tadcrawford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tadcrawford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tadcrawford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tadcrawford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}