The True Story Of The Odyssey (and why it matters) - Alex Petkas - #1125

Why is the Odyssey such an important story? Well, it's a story that has affected a lot of people. I think because it has all of these really universal themes and problems that it that it relates to. I mean, any good literature does that, but maybe the Odyssey in particular. I mean, Chris Nolan talks about it as this sort of archetypal story that is somehow in all of the movies that he's done.

You know, there's there's the theme of uh returning to your home, uh, sacrificing on behalf of the community. Um, one of the things that I think is really timely about the Odyssey, and I don't really know how much uh the movie's gonna get into this, but it's kind of a story about the collapse of the patriarchy and how it gets restored, uh, what it what it takes to restore that, um, which, you know, maybe is is is timely for our day. Who wrote it? So Homer is is the short answer.

Who's Homer? Homer Homer is the author, according to the Greeks, of the Iliad and the Odyssey. These two poems that, you know, modern scholars will kind of quibble about was was it one guy, was it two guys? Was it a whole kind of crowd of men working or, you know, people working in this tradition.

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