About this episode

Richard Epstein and Charles C. W. Cooke discuss the moral themes and legal aspects of Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey.

Richard Epstein and Charles C. W. Cooke discuss Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey —its departures from Homer, its moral themes, and its spectacular scale. They also explore aesthetics, virtue, Greek and Roman law, and the relationship between ordinary moral intuition and formal legal reasoning.

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Guests: Richard Epstein, Charles C. W. Cooke

Topics covered

• The Odyssey
• moral themes
• Greek and Roman law
• aesthetics
• legal reasoning

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Books & works: The Odyssey

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