Hathaway on Nolan’s Odyssey: Penelope Equals Odysseus in Strategy and Cunning
Anne Hathaway gave a global press interview this week that included ERTnews, and what she revealed about playing Penelope in Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey went…
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Nolan’s Odyssey Sends Tourists to Ithaca. What They Find is a Rubbish Dump
Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster Odyssey film broke box office records this summer and sent tourists flooding to Ithaca, the island Homer named as Odysseus’s…
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Nolan’s Odyssey Sends Greek Tourism Bookings Up 76%
Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey is driving a measurable surge in demand for Greece, and the country’s government is moving…
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Homer’s Loyal Dog Waited 20 Years. Then Died.
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey film has put Homer back at the center of global conversation, but one of the epic’s most devastating moments involves no monsters…
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Did Homer’s Odyssey Actually Have a Real Map?
For centuries, scholars have argued over whether the places in Homer’s Odyssey were real locations or pure invention, and modern researchers still don’t have a…
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Nolan’s Odyssey Sends Homer Book Sales Up 1,400%
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey has done something no classical scholar managed to pull off. In the four weeks after the film opened in mid-July, UK sales of…
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Nolan’s Odyssey: Epic or Disaster? His Biggest Gamble Yet
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey has landed in cinemas and the debate is already out of control. Classics scholars are furious, critics are divided, and audiences…
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Nolan’s Odyssey: The Achilles Myth That Cuts Both Ways
A viral social media exchange about Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film “The Odyssey” has resurfaced a detail from Greek mythology that’s now fueling debate on…
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Nolan’s Odyssey Pulls $87M in Week 2, Beats The Dark Knight
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is showing no signs of slowing down. The film pulled in $87 million in its second weekend at the North American box office…
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Emily Wilson: “I Would Be Ashamed to Have Written Any Part of Nolan’s Odyssey”
Emily Wilson, the classics professor whose 2017 translation of the Odyssey Christopher Nolan cited as an early influence on his film, has published a…
