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‘The Odyssey’ is a striking portrait of the psychological wounds that can emerge when people violate their deepest values

Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” a new adaptation of Homer’s epic tale of Odysseus’ perilous journey home after the Trojan War, is already being described as a case study in post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' earns Rs 20.76 crore at box office in India

Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" achieved over twenty crore rupees in India on its opening day. The film features a star-studded cast including Tom Holland and Zendaya in key roles. It depicts Odysseus's challenging ten-year journey home after the Trojan War. The movie was filmed using advanced 70mm IMAX film cameras…

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‘It was unlike anything I expected’: Fans react to seeing The Odyssey

The blockbuster adapts Homer’s ancient Greek epic about the king of Ithaca’s return home after the Trojan War.

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Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey: The Epic Everyone Will Be Debating

Christopher Nolan, playing with time, memory, and morality has always been a hallmark of his work and in The Odyssey, he challenges himself to take on the oldest adventure story in Western literature. The tale of Odysseus' tortured journey back from the wars of Troy written by Homer is a…

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How controlling (and tolling) a narrow waterway near ancient Troy changed history

Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated adaptation of The Odyssey officially opened in theatres this week. It retells Homer’s ancient epic of Odysseus’ journey home from the Trojan war.

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Archaeologists found a real ancient city in Turkey that may have inspired the story of Troy, but there is still no proof that the Trojan War happened

Recent archaeological excavations at Hisarlik in Turkey have definitively established the historical site of ancient Troy. Findings from these digs include settlements from the Bronze Age, alongside evidence of fire and arrowheads, hinting at possible conflicts in the area. Hittite texts referencing Wilusa, thought to be Troy, further suggest a…

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The Odyssey Real Story: How Greek King Odysseus won the Trojan war but nearly lost everything on his 10-year journey to home

The Odyssey original story summary: Christopher Nolan's film "The Odyssey" brings Homer's ancient epic to the big screen. Odysseus, a Greek king, won the Trojan War with a clever trick. His journey home took ten years, filled with many perilous challenges. Meanwhile, his wife Penelope faced suitors pressuring her to…

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The Odyssey Movie Parents Guide: Why the movie is rated R, how scary it is and whether Christopher Nolan’s epic is suitable for kids

Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" arrives in Indian theaters this Friday, July seventeenth. The film received an R rating for violence and language, requiring adult accompaniment for younger viewers. This epic war tale details Odysseus's journey and the Trojan War's dangers. Nolan discussed his approach to portraying violence authentically and engagingly…

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Why Hollywood's Biggest Stars Have Landed In Mumbai This Week

Mumbai is witnessing one of its biggest Hollywood moments yet. Academy Award-winning filmmaker Christopher Nolan has arrived in India alongside leading stars Tom Holland and Matt Damon for the grand Indian premiere of The Odyssey. The visit is part of the film's global promotional campaign, placing Mumbai alongside cities like…

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Can we map The Odyssey? How ancient geographers and modern researchers have traced Odysseus’s travels

Homer’s Odyssey is a quest, following King Odysseus’s ten-year journey back home to Ithaca after the Trojan war. It is a tale with distinct geographic, spatial and temporal dimensions. It is no wonder that for centuries, people have been intrigued by the places mentioned in the Odyssey, wondering how many…

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The Odyssey beginner's guide: a complete roundup of the epic poem, how it's connected to the Iliad, and each character explained

Get up to speed on the Odyssey poem and the Trojan War before the Christopher Nolan movie arrives

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Sleep and Death cista handle: A 2,400-year-old sculpture depicting gods carrying away Zeus' son during the Trojan War

A small, bronze sculpture depicting a death scene in the Trojan War once graced an Etruscan box.

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Buried with three swords and a gold mask, scientists reconstruct the face of a 3,500-year-old Mycenaean woman who lived before the Trojan War

A woman buried with a gold mask and swords in Mycenae was wrongly identified for decades. New DNA tests show she was nobility, not a wife. Her face has now been reconstructed, revealing a modern look. Evidence suggests the swords were hers, and warrior kits were found with women more…

The Economic Times

Son of Nobody by Yann Martel review – Life of Pi author discovers a long-lost poem from Troy

An epic poem about the Trojan war is merged with the domestic heartbreak of the scholar who discovers it in this ambitious, structurally problematic novel

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Stunningly preserved Roman-era mosaic in UK depicts Trojan War stories — but not the ones told by Homer

A newfound mosaic draws inspiration from "Phrygians," a play by the Athenian playwright Aeschylus that survives only in bits and pieces.

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The legend of Troy explained

The Trojan War is a legend that sprang from a distant memory of a real Greek incursion into the Bronze Age city of Troy (in modern day Türkiye). This may have taken the form of annual piracy raids and/or encounters based on control of the Aegean Sea.

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'Extremely rare' bronze armor found in Czech Republic dates to Trojan War era

Ancient metal artifact discovered in the Czech Republic is a rare example of bronze armor from the Trojan War era.

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Epic win: why the Odyssey is having a moment

With new translations, a film starring Ralph Fiennes and a Christopher Nolan blockbuster on the way, Homer’s saga about a soldier’s return from battle speaks to our times in unexpected ways

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The heroes of Homer’s Iliad are eco-warriors battling to protect nature

Homer’s Iliad is so canonical in world literature that even without having read the epic, most people are familiar with the broad scenario of the Trojan war, triggered by the Trojan prince Paris’s abduction of the Greek beauty Helen, “the face that launched a thousand ships”.

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Mask of Agamemnon: A gold death mask once thought to be evidence of the Trojan War

The archaeologist who discovered the mask believed it showed the Trojan War was real.

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Odyssey by Stephen Fry – the tales of return from the Trojan war are charmingly retold but at an uncomfortable cost

Stephen Fry’s Odyssey is the final instalment in his retellings of Greek myth that began with Mythos. Here, Fry tells us, we move away from the turbulent creation of the gods and the swashbuckling heroes of old, into “a profoundly human story”: a tale of one man’s journey home “to…

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