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Has anyone told Nolan that both the Iliad and the Odyssey are works of fiction and thus in that world gods and monsters exist? They’re not even Greek myth, they’re straight up pre-European fantasy. It’s like trying to be historically accurate to Pirates Of The Caribbean.
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This could be more a case of Nolan trying to honor the historical consensus of these characters and their world from the original Greek tellers’ perspective. Helen of Troy being Black is definitely the most unusual flex here, but the population makeup of the city back then, as far as archeological evidence and contemporary accounts are concerned, was mostly of that persuasion. To me, it’s a degree less counter to most people’s view of “history” than, say, Abe Lincoln having a high-pitched voice.
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