Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago

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Bringing The Odyssey to the screen is no small undertaking.

What does Christopher Nolan's new film get right, and wrong, about Homer's Odyssey? In this pair of videos, Ralston Classicist Dr David Butterfield responds to Nolan’s film and considers where its interpretation of the epic succeeds and fails.

Nearly three thousand years after Odysseus first set sail, some things still survive the journey.