Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The language used by the characters of Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" based on the trailer sounds to be somewhat modern. But how does this approach compare with how Homer's epics were received by native speakers in antiquity?
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The language used by the characters of Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" based on the trailer sounds to be somewhat modern. But how does this approach compare with how Homer's epics were received by native speakers in antiquity?
I'll be teaching full-immersion Ancient Greek to Beginners at the University of Dallas Polis course this summer: polisjerusalem.org/program/university-of-dallas-texas-usa-ancient-greek-summer-2026
You can also find the advanced Synhodos and Forum Latinum here: polisjerusalem.org/programs/usa
🦂 Support my work on Patreon:
patreon.com/LukeRanieri
📚 Luke Ranieri Audiobooks:
luke-ranieri.myshopify.com
🤠 Take my course LATIN UNCOVERED on StoryLearning, including my original Latin adventure novella "Vir Petasātus"
learn.storylearning.com/lu-promo?affiliate_id=3932873
☕️ Support my work with PayPal:
paypal.me/lukeranieri
And if you like, do consider joining this channel:
youtube.com/channel/UCLbiwlm3poGNh5XSVlXBkGA/join
🏛 Latin by the Ranieri-Dowling Method: luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/latin-by-the-ranieri-dowling-method-latin-summary-of-forms-of-nouns-verbs-adjectives-pronouns-audio-grammar-tables
🏺Ancient Greek by the Ranieri-Dowling Method: luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/ancient-greek-by-the-ranieri-dowling-method-latin-summary-of-forms-of-nouns-verbs-adjectives-pronouns-audio-grammar-tables
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🦉🏺 Ancient Greek in Action · YouTube Greek Lessons:
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🦂 ScorpioMartianus (my channel for content in Latin, Ancient Greek, & Ancient Egyptian)
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🎙 Hundreds of hours of Latin & Greek audio:
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🌍 polýMATHY website:
lukeranieri.com/polymathy
🌅 polýMATHY on Instagram:
instagram.com/lukeranieri
🦁 Legio XIII Latin Language Podcast:
youtube.com/LegioXIII
👕 Merch:
teespring.com/stores/scorpiomartianus
🦂 ScorpioMartianus.com
🦅 LukeRanieri.com
📖 My book Ranieri Reverse Recall on Amazon:
amzn.to/2nVUfqd
Intro and outro music: Overture of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Mozart
