The Siren's Call of "The Odyssey"

So do you wanna give us a quick summary of what happens in the action?

Sure.

Well, I must admit that I had not read it until I saw the movie like two months ago.

And so, truthfully, I had left the movie theater and went directly to Barnes & Noble and picked up a copy of it to start reading it.

In English or Greek? In English.

Yeah, my Greek is not that good.

But to start reading it, and I haven't finished it yet.

I'm towards the end.

But essentially what it is about is about a warrior who fought in the Trojan War trying to get back home.

And it's taking him a really long time to get back home, something about two decades, 20 years, for him to leave the war in Troy and get back to his wife and his son, whom he really never met, and come back home.

And along the way, he encounters different trials and temptations.

There are gods in the pantheon of Greek gods who are trying to support him to get back home, some who are actively working against him.

And so it's really about this man, this great warrior named Odysseus and his journey back to Ithaca where he's the king of Ithaca and he's trying to get back home and everything that happens along the way.

Yeah, and the story is told basically as kind of a flashback because you start where you are in the king's court, in Ulysses' court, who is like a king, and his wife, Penelope, is there, and everyone believes that Odysseus has died.

And because she is wealthy and powerful and pretty much Odysseus ran that region, there are all these suitors that have come that are trying to marry her.

And she has this son, Telemachus, who's a young man, who's trying to stand up for her, but is never really known as father.

And so there's a whole conflict going on there.

And so that's where the story starts.

And then you learn about Odysseus and his... voyage and trials and all of that kind of as a flashback.

And then you go all the way through what happened to him until he reappears on the scene in the court in the guise of a beggar.

So it's an interesting way of telling the story But part of what is so fascinating is that it's not self-evident that a story that is, I think it's 2,700 years old, would become fodder for a major Hollywood movie.

But clearly the people who pitched the idea were right because the movie has made a fortune.

Like $1.6 billion.

Yeah, which is a

lot of money.

So do you wanna give us a quick summary of what happens in the action?

Sure.

Well, I must admit that I had not read it until I saw the movie like two months ago.

And so, truthfully, I had left the movie theater and went directly to Barnes & Noble and picked up a copy of it to start reading it.

In English or Greek? In English.

Yeah, my Greek is not that good.

But to start reading it, and I haven't finished it yet.

I'm towards the end.

But essentially what it is about is about a warrior who fought in the Trojan War trying to get back home.

And it's taking him a really long time to get back home, something about two decades, 20 years, for him to leave the war in Troy and get back to his wife and his son, whom he really never met, and come back home.

And along the way, he encounters different trials and temptations.

There are gods in the pantheon of Greek gods who are trying to support him to get back home, some who are actively working against him.

And so it's really about this man, this great warrior named Odysseus and his journey back to Ithaca where he's the king of Ithaca and he's trying to get back home and everything that happens along the way.

Yeah, and the story is told basically as kind of a flashback because you start where you are in the king's court, in Ulysses' court, who is like a king, and his wife, Penelope, is there, and everyone believes that Odysseus has died.

And because she is wealthy and powerful and pretty much Odysseus ran that region, there are all these suitors that have come that are trying to marry her.

And she has this son, Telemachus, who's a young man, who's trying to stand up for her, but is never really known as father.

And so there's a whole conflict going on there.

And so that's where the story starts.

And then you learn about Odysseus and his... voyage and trials and all of that kind of as a flashback.

And then you go all the way through what happened to him until he reappears on the scene in the court in the guise of a beggar.

So it's an interesting way of telling the story But part of what is so fascinating is that it's not self-evident that a story that is, I think it's 2,700 years old, would become fodder for a major Hollywood movie.

But clearly the people who pitched the idea were right because the movie has made a fortune.

Like $1.6 billion.

Yeah, which is a

lot of money.