The Trojan Horse and the Moral Architecture of the West

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey and the Reconstruction of Civilizational Memory

This essay contains full spoilers for Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey. Regarding the story itself, you’ve had nearly three millennia to read the poem. ;)

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Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is examined here not primarily as a film review, but as an act of cultural transmission—a modern Trojan Horse. The stakes are unusually high because the Odyssey is not mer…