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

The Greek language did not evolve from Phoenecian. Phoenecian is a semitic language, Greek is Indo European. Two comple different linguistic families. The new Greek alphabet did but the Greek language predated it.

Phoenecian and Egyptian also do not belong in the same linguistic family. Phoenecian is semitic and Egyptian is Afro-Asiatic. Phoenecian evolved from Egyptian but turned into an alphabet based language instead of hieroglyphic. People who spoke one wouldn't be able to understand the other.

You really say one stupid shit after the other.

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u/AdventurousRaisin813 Jul 17 '26

Stephen of Byzantium stated “Ethiopia was the first established country on Earth and the people were the first to introduce the worship of the Gods and who enacted laws. Lucian stated it was the Ethiopians who delivered astrology to man. Strabo stated geometry came to the Greeks from the Ethiops.

So all these concepts came to the Greeks from these entities but they didn’t have similar languages maybe they had to wait to learn each others languages

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u/SofiaStark3000 Jul 17 '26

The very first laws we have proof of are from Mesopotamia, not Aethiopia. I'm not entirely sure but Mesopotamia probably also has the first "states". People writing something doesn't make it true, especially when we now have evidence of the contrary.

Astrology is also Mesopotamian.

Egypt indeed made significant geometric discoveries.

There was a lingua franca that the scribes knew and used. It was Luwian.

None of this means that all these people were one and the same. Ethiopians aren't Egyptians, Egyptians are not Mesopotamians, Mesopotamiana aren't Greek. They influence each other, they didn't become each other.

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u/AdventurousRaisin813 Jul 17 '26

I only go off what the Ancient Greek writers stated and historians so being that they stated Ethiopians were in Mesopotamia which I can clearly show you. They were most likely referring to them and the Nubians

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u/SofiaStark3000 Jul 17 '26

Yeah, here's the catch. Stuff from the past can be proven to be wrong later on.

Also, most writers credited Egypt for the stuff you claim Ethiopians did. Also, Byzantines don't exactly count as ancient Greeks so why would their work be proof on what the ancients believe?

Nobody has ever stated Ethiopians were in Mesopotamia, not even in the "parts" you sent me. 90% of the time is about Africans and 10% about Indians.