ABSTRACT. The following is an exploration Kazantzakis’s masterpiece entitled The Odyssey. In it one can find Kazantzakis’s philosophy at its best, as a challenge to surpass all ontological categories – a philosophy of eternal “beyonding.” pp. 3–18

Keywords: Odysseus / Ulysses; Nietzsche; superman; Bergson; Buddha; being; becoming; quest for knowledge; existentialism; spiritual purification