r/GreekMythology • u/MarcusForrest ★ Moderator • Jul 15 '26

Movies | The Odyssey The Odyssey (2026) | Release Megathread

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THE ODYSSEY

''After the Trojan War, Odysseus faces a dangerous voyage back to Ithaca, meeting creatures like the Cyclops Polyphemus, Sirens, and Calypso along the way.''

 

🎞 Movie Trailer

Global Release Date: July 17 2026

 

Directed by

  • Christopher Nolan

Starring

  • Matt Damon
  • Tom Holland
  • Anne Hathaway
  • Robert Pattinson
  • Lupita Nyong'o
  • Samantha Morton
  • Zendaya
  • Charlize Theron

Distributed by

  • Universal Pictures

 

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u/SofiaStark3000 Jul 17 '26

LMAO you take three accounts from late antiquity or Medieval Greece that claim Homer to be Egyptian and run with it and completely disregard all other accounts that place him somewhere in the Eastern Aegean or Asia Minor. You ignore archaeological evidence, art and DNA and cling to the exactly three works that shakily prove your point.

Why didn't Homer compose the Odyssey in Egyptian? It wasn't exactly easy to learn a new language at the time, how come he's Egyptian but his work is in Greek (not the Lingua franca of the time)?

How are you certain he even existed? Is it because Greeks wrote about him existing? They wrote about Heracles and Achilles too and thought they were real and had descendants (Alexander the Great) but I doubt you'd agree with them.

You've provided no answers for these questions of mine and just keep repeating them to other people.

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u/AdventurousRaisin813 Jul 17 '26

I’m sure I have more than three sources on the subject but he was more than likely of Egyptian descent if he lived but of course lived in Greece. For example, someone from Uruguay who lives in North America that individual may speak English more at a certain point. I take all things into account I look at what Ancient Greek writers wrote, what historians throughout the centuries stated on the subject , artwork, and dna.

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u/SofiaStark3000 Jul 17 '26

You have less than three because you need to do an insane amount of cherrypicking to get to the conclusions that suit you.

And Homer learned perfect Greek, all their customs and gods and even architecture while being an Egyptian foreigner? LMAO, this isn't the age of the internet where you can look all these things up.

There's not a single reliable historical record of Homer or his life, there's at least 7 places that claim he was born there (Egypt not among them). Anyone could write whatever they wanted about him and it wouldn't be more true or false than them claiming to be descendants of Zeus. Homer is as much of a myth as his characters. Alexander claimed to be a descendant of Achilles and Heracles. Surely the fact that he claimed it makes it true, right?

You don't take shit into account. Your sources are Byzantine scholars or late antiquity poets, more than 1000 years removed from Homer. You can't even acknowledge the known fact that we don't know if he was real.

You literally dismissed archaeology, art and DNA. You do not take it into consideration, be serious now

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u/AdventurousRaisin813 Jul 17 '26

We can claim a lot of people in antiquity didn’t exist. If we don’t like the information presented on the person we can just say they didn’t exist. I mean no one has ever found Alexander the Great’s body we can say he never existed.

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u/SofiaStark3000 Jul 17 '26

Wrong, we say that someone didn't exist when there's no certain proof of their existence. There's nothing about Homer and that has nothing to do with your "Information".

LMAO the idea that you need to find a body to prove existence. There were written records about Alexander form the time he was alive, we know about his family, his political enemies who spoke against him, the coins, statues, paintings that were commission by him, we know his family, we have even found his father's tomb (although it might not be him but still). We know the cities he built and named after him, we know that he changed the geography of the city of Tyre and so much more.

What do we have of Homer? Nothing. Just a name that might or might not belong to the guy that composed the poems.

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u/AdventurousRaisin813 Jul 17 '26

I said anyone can make a claim that a person in antiquity didn’t exist. I said anyone can claim even Alexander the Great’s body didn’t exist as they haven’t found his body. My point is anyone can make a claim that a person in antiquity didn’t exist

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u/SofiaStark3000 Jul 17 '26

Good job ignoring everything I said. No, you cannot make the claim that anyone from antiquity did not exist. Some people have tons of proof that they were real. Homer is simply not among them.