Dark Odysseus Rises

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Richard begins by reviewing Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, arguing Nolan delivers an impressive, entertaining spectacle but flattens Homer’s symbolism and turns Odysseus into a guilt-ridden modern moralist; he frames Odysseus as a proto-Jewish trickster, discusses Hermes/Dionysus motifs (fig tree), the Sea Peoples a…