Christopher Nolan’s new film The Odyssey is generating a lot of buzz, especially after Empire magazine released new images showing Matt Damon as Odysseus and a massive battle scene. The film is an ...

For millennia, the epic poems of Homer have profoundly shaped Western literature and thought with their timeless tales of heroism, gods and the enduring human spirit. While The Iliad plunges us into ...

After the huge success of Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan is now turning his attention to one of the oldest and most famous hero stories in world literature: The Odyssey. The film brings Odysseus' ...

Anticipation is building for Christopher Nolan’s next epic. Universal has unveiled a first look of Matt Damon playing the lead in Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey. The side-angle shot shows ...

Research associate, Institute for Prehistory and Early History and Medieval Archaeology, University of Tübingen Somewhere between hero and hustler, family man and philanderer, king and con artist, ...

Odysseus is a liar. There is no question about it in classical literature, that Homer’s archetypal hero is a fork-ongued liar. Sometimes he lies to save his own skin, other times he uses lies as a ...