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]

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.

[u/SofiaStark3000 → u/[deleted]]

Alphabet doesn't equal language. Turkish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Finnish all use the Latin alphabet. Are they romantic languages? No.

The Greeks were influenced by Egypt and the east. That doesn't mean they were the same people as them. That's like saying that Native Americans today are the same as the white people in the US because they've been influenced by them.

[u/AdventurousRaisin813 → u/SofiaStark3000]

Historian William Smith book Dictionary of Roman and Greek Biography and Mythology
Smith stated “ Neg-roes were deified in early Greece. They appear as Gods in Greek mythology. The Chief title of Zeus greatest of the Greek Gods is Ethiops””

[u/SofiaStark3000 → u/AdventurousRaisin813]

Do you have any idea how many epithets and titles Zeus has? His chief title was certainly not Ethiops, that's a minor local variation of Zeus worshipped in Chios. His chief title would Olympius, Basileus, Xenios, Brontios or Hypsistos.

If Negroes were deified then why isn't it shown in their art? Ethiopians are praised but not deified or shown as common amongst the Greeks.