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

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0:00Why is the Odyssey such an important story?

0:03Well, it's a story that has affected a lot of people.

0:08I think because it has all of these really universal themes and problems that it relates to.

0:14I mean, any good literature does that, but maybe the Odyssey in particular.

0:19I mean, Chris Nolan talks about it as this sort of archetypal story that is somehow in all of the movies that he's done.

0:26You know, there's the theme of returning to your home, sacrificing on behalf of the community.

0:34One of the things that I think is really timely about The Odyssey, and I don't really know how much the movie is going to get into this, but it's kind of a story about the collapse of the patriarchy and how it gets restored, what it takes to restore that, which maybe is timely for our day.

0:56Who wrote it?

0:57So Homer is the short answer.

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