Film Review
A Homerist Reacts to Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”
“This is a tale of a man affected by trauma, but without any sense that it changed him at all.”
Joel P. Christensen is professor of Classics at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he serves as provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs. His research interests include early Greek poetry, myth, and literary theory.
Film Review
“This is a tale of a man affected by trauma, but without any sense that it changed him at all.”
Film
Homer’s Odysseus is complicated and playful — a man who has suffered, and is changed. Pasolini’s Odysseus squints, and occasionally flexes.