As Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation The Odyssey has become one of this year's biggest hits both critically and at the global box office, a global frenzy has reignited an age-old literary mystery: Where was literature’s seminal text actually written?
The poet has for a very long time been associated with the Izmir region of Türkiye's Aegean coast, which for most of its history was known as ancient Smyrna.
