Prof. Olga Levaniouk in Classical Continuum on Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey

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Christopher Nolan's latest film, The Odyssey, has everyone talking, including classicists. Find out what our own Olga Levaniouk, a specialist on ancient Greek poetry, Homer, and in particular, the Odyssey (see, e.g., her 2010 book Eve of the Festival: Making Myth in Odyssey 19), thought about the movie in general and in particular what she liked about the figure of Penelope, played by Anne Hathaway. Her piece appears in , an Open Access platform sponsored by the .