From Ancient Greece to Hollywood and Nollywood
Some Ancient Greeks in Modern Times
It’s possible to criss-cross back and forth between literature and cinema when it comes to how Homer’s eighth-century BCE epic poem the Odyssey is retold in the novels of James Joyce, Thomas Wolfe, and Alberto Moravia, and a variety of films and television programs, such as the Japanese-French anime, Ulysses 31 (1981), a television series which “updates the ancient setting into a 31st-century space opera.”1
The Coen Brothers’ O Brother, Where Art Thou? (USA, 2000), set in the Deep South of 1930s America, plays with sections of the Odyssey in which “Odysseus warns his men against killing the sacred oxen that belong to the sun god Helios, but his men slaughter ...
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