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Cate Blanchett’s Electra/Persona at the National Theatre is a surreal triumph

Written and directed by Benedict Andrews, Electra/Persona is two plays conjoined. The first is a version of Sophocles’ ancient Greek tragedy Electra, and the second is a stage adaptation of the 1966 Ingmar Bergman film Persona.

The Conversation

Women's rage is in season again

Hulu's "Furious" speaks to an ancient anger that the summer's biggest movie missed

Salon

Electra/Persona review – Blanchett and Hoss face off in lopsided Sophocles/Bergman double bill

Benedict Andrews’ intense, interval-free mashup of ancient and modernist classics is a show of two halves

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Move over, Odysseus: time for the women of ancient Greece to have their moment in the sun

The hottest ticket in theatreland will soon be Cate Blanchett in Electra/Persona. Caged female rage continues to capture audiences, says writer Natalie Haynes

The Guardian - UK

Quote of the day inspired by Homer’s Odyssey: 'Men are so quick to blame the gods, they say that...' — and why the worst disasters are always self-inflicted

Throughout history, individuals have sought to attribute their setbacks and misguided choices to outside influences. This theme resonates in ancient tales like The Odyssey, illustrating a long-standing human inclination. In contemporary discussions, psychology's locus of control principle reflects this habit. Today, institutions and technology take center stage as convenient scapegoats…

The Times of India

After Multiple Controversies, Here’s How ‘The Odyssey’ Cast Compares To Their Real-Life And Mythological Counterparts

From Matt Damon to Zendaya, see how The Odyssey cast matches their legendary Greek counterparts.

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Christopher Nolan fans have a theory on why The Odyssey chooses not to show Agamemnon's face

Odysseus may be a very unreliable narrator

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Christopher Nolan's movie magic knows no end, as fans find out The Odyssey's fall of Troy was filmed without a green screen

The fall of Troy was created using over a thousand extras

Total Film

The Odyssey fans have only just noticed what the 7-month-old poster actually shows

The first poster for The Odyssey was hiding a huge plot point

Total Film

The Odyssey changes: 16 differences between Christopher Nolan's movie and Homer's epic poem

The biggest difference between Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey and Homer's poem

Total Film

'Fortnite' x 'Odyssey' Movie Brings Matt Damon's Odysseus, Benny Safdie's Agamemnon Skins

Fortnite's latest collaboration is with Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey movie, featuring Matt Damon's Odysseus, as well as Agamemnon's skins.

Player One

The Odyssey review – Nolan goes god-tier with breathtaking epic of men, monsters and moral metamorphosis

Doing full justice to the Homeric legend, Christopher Nolan amasses an epic cast to convey the true cost of war with film-making of thrilling ambition

The Guardian - UK

‘More postmodern than ancient’: why the Odyssey is everywhere, from Oz to Westeros

Christopher Nolan’s take on the Odyssey is set to break box-office records. What made the director so determined to adapt the ancient Greek epic? And why does a poem from 600BC hold a vice-like grip on pop culture?

The Guardian - UK

The Odyssey beginner's guide: a complete roundup of the epic poem, how it's connected to the Iliad, and each character explained

Get up to speed on the Odyssey poem and the Trojan War before the Christopher Nolan movie arrives

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Iphigenia review: A clumsy and unnecessary attempt to make Euripides relevant

2/5 This play at the Arcola Theatre by Turkish director Serdar Biliş has a contemporary and experimental approach to Greek tragedy that doesn’t quite pull together

The Conversation

The legend of Troy explained

The Trojan War is a legend that sprang from a distant memory of a real Greek incursion into the Bronze Age city of Troy (in modern day Türkiye). This may have taken the form of annual piracy raids and/or encounters based on control of the Aegean Sea.

Marie Claire

16 Must-Read Books About Greek Mythology and Other Folklore

All the gods and goddesses you know and love, but with a scandalous or feminist twist.

The Guardian - UK

The Voyage Home by Pat Barker audiobook review – beware the grief of Clytemnestra

The story of Agamemnon’s fateful return to Mycenae is vividly captured in a retelling of The Iliad that gives Homer’s women a voice

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Elektra review – Brie Larson makes a fearless West End debut in punk tragedy

The Captain Marvel star is a magnetic frontwoman in Daniel Fish’s radical rewiring of the ancient play

The Conversation

Why Trump’s rage defies historical and literary comparisons, according to a classics expert

The Greek divinity Nemesis, rarely depicted in art, has no place in the Olympian pantheon of a dozen gods and goddesses. But she’s an omnipresent force of retribution, an implacable force of punishment that arrives, if not sooner, then later.

The Guardian - UK

Electra-fying! Captain Marvel’s Brie Larson brings back an ancient avenger

Sophocles’ classic about the bitter pursuit of justice – now revived by Daniel Fish – reveals fresh truths each time

LiveScience

Mask of Agamemnon: A gold death mask once thought to be evidence of the Trojan War

The archaeologist who discovered the mask believed it showed the Trojan War was real.

The Guardian - UK

Odyssey by Stephen Fry audiobook review – one hell of a trip

With his distinctive narration, the author-actor brings warmth and humour to his retelling of Homer’s epic, the last in his Greek myth series

The Conversation

Odyssey by Stephen Fry – the tales of return from the Trojan war are charmingly retold but at an uncomfortable cost

Stephen Fry’s Odyssey is the final instalment in his retellings of Greek myth that began with Mythos. Here, Fry tells us, we move away from the turbulent creation of the gods and the swashbuckling heroes of old, into “a profoundly human story”: a tale of one man’s journey home “to…

The Conversation

The Voyage Home is a fierce and chilling end to Pat Barker’s Women of Troy trilogy

The legend of Troy – a city sparking with fire, a cataclysmic war and a refugee crisis – always has something more to offer writers looking for inspiration. The unspeakable horrors of conflict. The brutalities written on women’s bodies. The journey that, for the victors, means a voyage home, and…

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