The Odyssey purists are mad about the wrong detail in Christopher Nolan's movie

Nolan's epic movie risks ignoring Odysseus's most compelling traits in favor of a standardized "Hollywood dad" A lot of the online discourse surrounding the newest trailer for The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan’s epic movie that will hit theaters in July, coalesces around Thelemacus (Tom Holland) using the word “dad” to describe his father Odysseus (Matt Damon). But while I appreciate a little linguistic debate as much as anyone else, it was Odysseus’ words, “No one can stand between me and home,” that made my classical studies eyebrow perk up, The Rock-style. The thing is, Odysseus wasn’t always that eager to go home — or to stay there for long. To be clear, I’m not arguing in favor of or against Nolan’s movie being an accurate rendition of Homer’s poem, but reducing the protagonist to a family man who is desperately determined to return to the comforts of his hearth (as the trailer seems to suggest) misses the parts of the character that make Odysseus one of the most enduring figures in Western literary history. Around the year 1308 AD, Italian poet Dante Alighieri started penning the Divine Comedy, which would become one of the pillars of modern Western civilization. Dante’s allegor