Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey’: The film that launched a thousand tweets
In the 15th century, an Oxford student was strolling through a forest reading Aristotle’s Logic when he was attacked by a wild boar. Legend has it that he shoved the tome down the beast’s throat shouting, “Graecum est” —it’s Greek (hence not readable), a phrase used by medieval scribes when they came across Greek passages in Latin works they were copying. It’s a refreshingly honest attitude, in contrast to the sudden outbreak of social-media Homer expertise following the release of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.
- ▪In the 15th century, an Oxford student was strolling through a forest reading Aristotle’s Logic when he was attacked by a wild boar.
- ▪Legend has it that he shoved the tome down the beast’s throat shouting, “Graecum est” —it’s Greek (hence not readable), a phrase used by medieval scribes when they came across Greek passages in Latin works they were copying.
- ▪It’s a refreshingly honest attitude, in contrast to the sudden outbreak of social-media Homer expertise following the release of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.
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In the 15th century, an Oxford student was strolling through a forest reading Aristotle’s Logic when he was attacked by a wild boar. Legend has it that he shoved the tome down the beast’s throat shouting, “Graecum est” —it’s Greek (hence not readable), a phrase used by medieval scribes when they came across Greek passages in Latin works they were copying. It’s a refreshingly honest attitude, in contrast to the sudden outbreak of social-media Homer expertise following the release of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. The casting of Lupita Nyong’o, a Black woman, as Helen, launched a thousand tweets. And now, Elon Musk has joined in, promising a “historically accurate” adaptation of Homer’s work made by his AI platform Grok Imagine.
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