Christopher Nolan’s 'Odyssey' and the story men have told for 3,000 years to justify war

This article may contain spoilers. Homer, in fairness, had ample time to warn you.

After being publicly slammed by celebrated classicist Emily Wilson over his blockbuster adaptation of Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan may have taken comfort from a video-call with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis this week. An image and note released in Greek only by the prime minister’s office

Moviegoers across the world waited in anticipation ahead of the release of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.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

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The professor trashed the film after Nolan sung her praises during the press tour.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis thanked the British director for the film’s role in promoting ancient Greek culture and for choosing Greece as the main filming location for his box office blockbuster.

Back in May 2025, it was revealed that Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” ” would be the first feature film shot entirely with Imax 70mm cameras. That announcement sparked interest from other filmmakers. As “The Odyssey’s” box office sails to nearly $300 million domestically, with Imax 70mm screenings sold out for weeks

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is the film of the moment, but classicist Emily Wilson who translated Homer's ancient Greek poem in 2017 has criticised the film adaptation, saying it has "nothing convincing to say."

Emily Wilson said she would be ‘ashamed’ to have written any part of the script for Christopher Nolan’s epic.

The Odyssey has topped the US box office for two straight weeks and has already taken $640 million worldwide.

It’s a bit of a mystery why it takes Odysseus so long to get home if he’s not shacking up with Calypso and others ... I did not walk into Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey intending to pick holes. If there was zero sexual chemistry between Odysseus and Circe, who was I to say that’s not how it went in the poem? I was mo

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Moviegoers are turning out in droves for the IMAX spectacle "The Odyssey," but they're also flocking to something else: the 2,700-year-old source material. Matt Gutman has more.

Photo by Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pic The world-renowned classicist and translator of Homer’s The Odyssey, whom filmmaker Christopher Nolan credited as inspiring his blockbuster film, has slammed the movie. Emily Wilson, one of the foremost authorities on Homeric poetry and the first woman to translate The Odyssey

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The new blockbuster "lacks many of the elements that make the poem great," writes Emily Wilson, the classics professor who famously translated Homer's poem in 2017

For Greek translator Emily Wilson, the release of director Christopher Nolan’s 'The Odyssey' has been gratifying in various ways but the film itself left her unsatisfied.

Director Christopher Nolan says that when he was adapting Homer's epic poem The Odyssey as his latest film, he altered the story's ending to omit details that he found too "misogynistic."

The 41 rare 70mm IMAX screens are booked solid through September. Top analyst Paul Dergarabedian sees a "marathon, not a sprint."

One of the fascinating women of early literature, Circe becomes a simple witch in Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster.

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From Polyphemus the Cyclops to Calypso the nymph, here are the mythological creatures that define Odysseus' journey in Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey."

Toward the end of Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus and Penelope finally see each other after 20 years apart. Odysseus, disguised as “an ancient old man” by the goddess Athena, tells Penelope that her husband will return to kill the suitors who have tormented her. “Not one will avoid his death and destruction,” he says. This i

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