Why The Odyssey Is Actually About A Broken War Veteran | Prof. Peter Meineck

Christopher Nolan's retelling of Homer's famous epic is causing a lot of sassy drama these days, so I thought it'd be appropriate to have a chat with a Greek Mythology expert, and pick his brain on what this foundational poem of Western literature is really about - because cause truth be told, I don't think I really know. Is The Odyssey about heroism? Homecoming? Fate?

To find out, I talk to Prof. Peter Meineck, the renowned professor of Classics in the Modern World at NYU.

And since the internet seems ablaze with controversy regarding Christopher Nolan's upcoming adaptation, we have a chat about that as well...