The Iliad and the Odyssey by John Flaxman is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0
Here’s a bunch of articles to check out today, actually.
Maybe I should get some more images, because Christopher Nolan’s take on Homer’s tale is still a big discussion topic. Regardless of how it does in the box office, even the writer of the translation Nolan supposedly based his take on has pointed out how wrong the adaptation is, and she turned it into some feminist scribe. Among the complaints like historic inaccuracy despite Nolan claiming changes were made to fit the time period (which was just an excuse to pull as much myth out of the mythology as possible and make a tale about wartime PTSD and guilt) is the use of modern terminology. As Carrow Brown writes for That Park Place, Nolan’s language choices further take the epicness out of the epic story and adds to the mundane. Writers, read this as a warning of how you use words in your story to set the story’s mood. As a final link, Bleeding Fool contributor Michael Fowler goes over other choices that further drain the epic myth of both epic and myth.
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