SCOUT· 63%43m·2026-07-11·News PoliticsThis Author Says You Shouldn’t Be Intimidated by ‘The Odyssey’
If you can’t tell your Eurylochus from your Telemachus, fear not: Your primer on “The Odyssey” is here, just in time for Christopher Nolan’s new film adaptation of the 3,000-year-old epic. Madeline Miller, who reinvented “The Odyssey” in her best-selling novel “Circe,” explains why you shouldn’t be intimidated by the…
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“Such a great conversation! I’ve had Circe on my shelf for years and now I’m FINALLY going to read it!”
“Rewritten by a lesbian and turned into a movie that will lose 100+ million but win Oscars for its DEI casting. No thanks.”
“Just a small point that this expert misses: she refers to them making incredibly long voyages through uncertain lands. Of course, most of the voyages were through uncharted *waters*, and that's Poseidon's stomping grounds, often literally i…”
“love madeline, "circe" is a masterpiece”
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