THE FINAL WORD ON NOLAN'S ODYSSEY
Christopher Nolan's Odyssey has been burnt down for months, both before and after the fact. Seldom has a topic caused so much outrage on social media for so long. I think it is a good sign, because it shows we still care much more about our roots and classics, than about mere political scandal and other profane affronts. I leave the final verdict on the cultural rape of Homer to Deacon Seraphim Rohlin in an episode of The Symbolic World's series on Universal History (page).
July 30, 2026 Jonathan Pageau: Universal History: Rohlin vs Pageau: The Problems With Nolan’s Odyssey.
Modern man is unable to escape the morals of the Enlightenment bubble and simply has no capacity to understand subtle nuances and refined balances. He's the prisoner of false dialectics and selective, absolute moralities.
Deacon Seraphim obviously knows his classics like few others. And it shows how superficial Nolan's comprehension really is. Nolan showed how little respect he had for his source as well as his audience, when he rented a replica of a 10th century Viking ship for Odysseus's exploits. 'Nuf said.
Deacon Seraphim's exposé of cosmic laws that are carried through into Christianity is out of size interesting. Again, Nolan has vaguely heard of xenia, but interprets it through a postmodern, lapsed Catholic, liberal lens.
You'd wish someone would be brave enough to try to understand the minds of the ancients, instead of adapting them to our narrow understanding of reality.
Jonathan Pageau and Deacon Seraphim have already accepted the challenge and started working on an epic cycle of retellings about the Greek, cosmic, unwritten laws, or the children of the Titaness Themis, who founded the Oracle of Delphi.
The historic cycle is running from Bronze Age Greece up to and including the Western 'dark age' stories of King Arthur and the Grail set in post Roman Britain and France.
This cycle is obviously related to the Roman social class of knights, known as the equites and the later 9th century frontier soldiers guarding the Eastern Roman Empire's border with the early Muslim states in Anatolia and the Middle East, known as the Akrites.
The Akrites have their own cycle for stories, also originally an oral tradition, and eventually written down in demotic Greek. The term Akrites is derived from the Greek word akron (ἄκρον: border). We are hoping to post our own translation of the Akritic Songs at some point.
For easy reference, here are the links to Jonathan Pageau's surprisingly positive reviews of Nolan's movie, that few people have been able to understand.
- The Odyssey is Christopher Nolan's Trick (link)
- Nolan’s The Odyssey Full Breakdown: The Post World War 2 Consensus Movie We Need (link)
Worthwhile checking out is a channel called Athena Atrytone with short AI parodies on Nolan's adaption, both in Greek and English (link).
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