What will modern Greece really think of Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’?

Moviegoers across the world are waiting in anticipation at Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” opens on Friday.But what about where the movie is set? What do Greeks actually think of the movie?Conversation about adaptations often revolves around how closely they follow a source text. But in a country where Homer’s story is taught and retold at all schools, many point to how the epic has been kept alive for nearly 3,000 years: not despite reinvention, but because of it.“What we want children to understand is that every new creation is exactly that — a new creation," Filippos Mantzaris, who teaches “The Odyssey” to seventh graders, said.The film, starring Matt Damon as King Odysseus and a number of Hollywood stars, follows Homer’s outline: The king's return home from war through gods and monst