Tue Oct 13

Odysseus Returns: Reflections on Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey

Mahindra Humanities Center (Harvard) · Fong Auditorium · Boylston Hall · Harvard Square · Cambridge

Classicists David Elmer, Emily Greenwood and Jie Li, moderated by Robin Kelsey, take apart Christopher Nolan's blockbuster reworking of Homer — how his IMAX Odyssey adapts the ancient epic, what its cinematic choices do to the story, and what the film's reception says about us now.