Odyssey translator 'ashamed' of Christopher Nolan adaptation

“We understand the ambition behind bringing it to the screen on a global scale and we recognize the artistic tradition of reinterpretation that has surrounded these epics for centuries,” the Greek City Times wrote in an open letter to Nolan. “But we also ask you to consider something that is often overlooked in modern retellings of Greek stories. We did not vanish. Greek people did not disappear after the age of myth. Greek culture was not frozen in classical marble.

The Greek language was not extinguished in antiquity. We are still here.” Such casting choices include actors who don’t have Greek heritage like Matt Damon (Odysseus), Charlize Theron (Calypso) and Lupita Nyong’o, who plays Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra. RECOMMENDED VIDEO Homer not woke enough: Nyong’o Nyong’o came under fire for her assertion that Homer — who is estimated to have lived in the ninth or ninth century BC — wasn’t thinking enough about female representation in movies. “I would be like, ‘So Homer, how do you feel about the screen time given to these women given how little you spent with them, OK?” Nyong’o said before smugly mugging for the camera.