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Why everyone’s arguing about Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey
August 18, 2026
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Why everyone’s arguing about Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey
Adam Cooper, director of the linguistics program at Northeastern University, defended Nolan’s use of the more informal term, pointing out that older Greek vocabulary probably had an equivalent.