Posted on 07/17/2026 2:06:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Apparently, USC does not have any literature classes — or at least none on ancient Greece. Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” hit theaters on Friday, and the USC football team tried to get in on the fun, posting “Our Odyssey begins August 29” on X, referring to their first game of the year.
The issue with that is Homer’s 8th century epic poem “The Odyssey” follows Odysseus’ 10-year journey back to Greece after defeating the city of Troy in the Trojan War — the same city that serves as inspiration for USC’s nickname. The literary Trojans never had an odyssey.
In fact, Troy was burned and destroyed during the Trojan war, according to Homer’s earlier poem “Iliad” — with very limited survivors.
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“The literary Trojans never had an odyssey.”
Wasn’t there a guy named Aeneas or something like that?
“If the announcer for a USC game openly roots for them, is he a homer?”
That would be Pete Arbogast, homer with a capital “H”
Aeneas didn’t have an odyssey; he just Romed off.
I’m seeing an odd mixture of reviews of the movie. It could be my own bias, but I get the feeling that reviewers who like the movie are really driven by their politics (though they don’t say that) and the reviewers who don’t like the movie just feel that they watched a movie that didn’t work well. I don’t plan to see it.
Roam if you want to, roam around the world
Roam if you want to, without wings, without wheels
Roam if you want to, roam around the world
Roam if you want to, without anything but the love we feel
LOL!
Given that the film has a Black African playing Helen, and a female pretending to be a male playing a Greek warrior, what worse can USC do?
Isn’t casting Matt Damon as Odysseus worse?
Are they jumping on the bandwagon or into a dumpster fire?
Mexico City is not in Africa.
I heard leftists hated this movie.
I heard Ellen Page (however she is now known) speaking about the film, and about society’s inability to accept mentally ill folk like her/it, and I just thought - let this one crater. An absolute financial disaster, if possible. You shove your thumb in the eye of the normal majority of the population; you deserve to fail.
Is there an over/under on Kalshi on the year Page offs herself?
No, I’m not sure that’s worse than little Ellen Page playing Sinon (who doesn’t even appear in Homer).
It is inexplicable. The cleverest of Greeks played by the dullest of Hollyweirdos.
She was raised in Kenya; only born in Mexico because her father was teaching there.
I think Nolan will regret this forever.
That’s what they all say.
Met him years ago.
Well some Turks told me Greek warriors are just like that.
Strangely, this didn't make the movie.
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