Christopher Nolan’s The Odysseyis one of the biggest movies of the year, and, as with American Prometheus, the J. Robert Oppenheimer biography in 2023, it’s not a stretch to say there will be millions of moviegoers looking to read the source material for this new film. Christopher Nolan’s movieis based on the epic poem of the same name, commonly attributed to Homer, and let’s just say, it’s not the most accessible text, at least not without some additional context.

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