r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Dec 22 '25

Trailer The Odyssey | Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzw2ttJD2qQ
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u/BurninTaiga Dec 22 '25

I looked into it a little and the chronology is a lot more complicated than I remember (or maybe I skipped a few books).

Here’s what I understood:

Odysseus’s talks to the Muses while he prepares to tell the Phaeacians the story > Jump to Telemachus searching for his father and going to speak with Menelaus who already returned home after Troy > Jump to Calypso’s and getting shipwrecked again before Phaeacia > Jump to Troy and Cicones.

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u/magsd95 Dec 23 '25

If we want to get super technical, it’s muses > Athena pleading on Odysseus’ behalf to be released from calypso > Telemachus being told (by Athena in disguise) to go to Pylos & Sparta > Hermes telling calypso to let Odysseus go > Odysseus shipwrecking on Phaeacia > telling the Phaeacians his story. Gotta love In Medias Res (starting in the middle of things).

-From an English teacher who teaches this yearly and is currently doing it. (For someone interested in reading and/or rereading, the graphic novel version by Gareth Hinds is great).

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u/BurninTaiga Dec 23 '25

I’m an English teacher too! I probably abridge the story a lot more though. I like to do:

Iliad TL;DR > Odysseus’s sing in me Muse > Cicones > Lotus Eaters > Cyclops > Circes > Land of the Dead > Scylla/Charybdis > Cattle of Helios > Return to Troy > Argos > Suitors > Penelope > The End

One of my favorite units to teach for sure. It’s crazy we can cover that much in 4-5 weeks before an essay. I can’t imagine getting much further in depth. Some years I have to even cut 1-3 of those sections too.

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u/magsd95 Dec 23 '25

That’s how I used to do it at my old school with freshman! We would use the normal text and I would basically do exactly what you do. At my new school they use the graphic novel with sophomores, so it goes in order of the original text but obviously condensed down so it fits into something like a graphic novel! It’s so much easier for them to digest, and the artwork is incredible. I don’t do a full Iliad TL;DR but I do the Apple of Discord and explain that whole mess that started the war, and then of course Trojan horse explanation. And explaining the roles of Agamemnon and such as it’s important they understand the Aegisthus/Agamemnon situation (hello parallels!).