Whoever wrote the Odyssey, they were not creating a work of history. There may be historical elements, memories embedded in the stories, but this is not a deliberate attempt to recapture the lived experience of the past. The Odyssey is part of the transition from a predominantly oral society to one where text dominates…
The director’s choices can be debated but choices are inevitable, unless working on the scale of Game of Thrones, where there are still questionable omissions.
Two choices do seem to be particularly worth discussion, perhaps reflecting my sociologist’s interest in the nature of order: the “law of Zeus” and the treatment of women….
This film will be on lists of all-time great movies for a generation and the subject of numerous dissertations. See it now before it is overtaken by its own mythology.
A Social Science Space post