Classics Professors at the Movies: Nolan's Odyssey

Profs. Chiara Graf and Katherine Wasdine offer their perspectives on the movie in Maryland Today.

After watching Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, University of Maryland classics scholars Chiara Graf and Katherine Wasdin praised it as a compelling adaptation and a valuable teaching tool, while encouraging audiences to read Homer's original epic. They noted that Nolan's version is darker in tone, presents a more restrained and morally virtuous Odysseus, reflects contemporary values around relationships and war, emphasizes PTSD and the lasting trauma of conflict, and downplays the active role of the gods in favor of a more secular interpretation.

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