Episode 302 It's Mostly Fiction - The Mythology of the Odyssey

About this episode

The episode explores the mythology of The Odyssey and its origins, while addressing contemporary film criticism.

We have a heck of an episode for you. Arthur is turning 17 and our episode is inspired by the right wing pushback against Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'. We dig into the origin of the work, what we know of it's 'author' Homer, the real, the mythical, the things that are somewhere in between. We say goodbye to a family friend and gget downright hostile about people judging movies based on trailers in this deep dive into the origins of the Odyssey and all it's attendant mythology in this little bit of history, whole lotta weird imagined horrors episode of the Family Plot Podcast! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/family-plot--4670465/support .

Topics covered

• mythology
• The Odyssey
• Homer
• film criticism
• history
• true crime

Keywords

• Odyssey
• Homer
• mythology
• film criticism
• Christopher Nolan
• history
• true crime

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Christopher Nolan

Books & works: The Odyssey

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