Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey was always going to inspire – and enrage – fans. That’s what you get when you take Homer’s words and make them into a blockbuster in Trump times.
Odysseus is once again a cinematic hero. His adventures have fascinated audiences from antiquity to the present day. The already immense body of literature on the Homeric epics is increasingly attempting to bring us closer to the heroic figure. Can it succeed?
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