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Odysseus the destroyer? Christopher Nolan’s new Odyssey adaptation revives an ancient moral question

Michael La Corte, University of Tübingen and Stephan Blum, University of Tübingen Imagine waking up to find strangers…

byMichael La Corte

January 21, 2026