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Pop Religion | A Theme for Generations Hereafter: Professor Carolina López-Ruiz on Nolan's Odyssey, Faith, Fate, and Cultural Exchange in the Ancient Mediterranean
“And tell me too why you weep and lament thus bitterly when you hear told what things befell the Argives and Ilium. These things were the doing of the gods; they spun for mortals this thread of doom to become a theme for generations hereafter.” Home...
August 3, 2026
Why we still care about the ‘Odyssey’
Ahead of major film release, UChicago scholars discuss gods, heroes, casting and why Homer’s epic matters 3,000 years later “Tell me the story of a complicated man,” opens Emily Wilson’s translation of the Odyssey.Odysseus, the epic’s hero and compli...
July 17, 2026