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To dismiss Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey as an over-compressed bastardization of ancient Greek poetry is to miss how myth actually works. Gatekeeping classicists and purists clutching their pearls over narrative liberties forget a foundational truth: Homer’s epic was never meant to be preserved in amber. It was an oral tradition that was visceral, adaptive, and tailored toContinue reading “Why Nolan’s The Odyssey is more a Zeitgeist than a Homer Homage.”