The Odyssey
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The Odyssey is a 2026 epic action-fantasy film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, adapting Homer’s ancient Greek epic poem. Matt Damon stars as Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, on his perilous journey home after the Trojan War, alongside an ensemble cast including Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Zendaya, and Charlize Theron.
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Mentions of The Odyssey per 1,000 mentions of anything, 7-day rolling, health & science.
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| Day | Share (7-day) | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 13 | 0.59‰ | 1 |
| Sep 14 | 1.75‰ | 2 |
| Sep 15 | 2.29‰ | 1 |
| Sep 21 | 0.98‰ | 1 |
| Sep 22 | 0.93‰ | 1 |
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The Odyssey appears in discussions of temptation, history, agency, and ancient storytelling
On Something You Should Know, Angela Duckworth uses Odysseus’s journey home and Circe’s warning about temptation as an analogy for resisting setbacks while pursuing goals.[1]
Hidden Brain’s Martin Seligman contrasts Achilles in the Iliad with the clever Odysseus in the Odyssey to discuss the historical development of human agency.[2]
Science Friday discusses surviving works from the Library of Alexandria, including the Odyssey, while questioning what was lost and whether a major fire occurred there.[3]
Unexplainable treats the Odyssey as an ancient oral-tradition story and says it dates back almost 3,000 years before introducing a potentially older story.[4]
DarkHorse Podcast’s Joel Salatin invokes Homer’s Odyssey while discussing archaeological evidence and environmental change, whereas unPAUSED mentions Odyssey only in a sponsorship credit.[5][6]
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- 1.Something You Should Know · A Smarter Way to Make Big Life Changes & The Strange Rise of the House CatAngela Duckworth · Sep 14 · Listen at 11:51 ↗
“Well, a lot of people are watching The Odyssey. So let me just use King Odysseus as an example here. You know, there's a chapter in The Journey Home where King Odysseus is trying to, you know, make it home on a journey. He's been away for 1”
- 2.Hidden Brain · How to Make a Difference: Part 1Martin Seligman · Sep 21 · Listen at 40:44 ↗
“in Homer, for example, in the Iliad, Achilles doesn't decide to act. Athena tells Achilles to act. But 100 years later in the Odyssey, you've got Odysseus, who's this clever, cunning, wily person. The gods have started to leave the stage. A”
- 3.Science Friday · Did the fire at the Library of Alexandria set humanity back?Sam Kean · Sep 15 · Listen at 2:25 ↗
“We have very, very little, just scraps of one papyrus scroll is the only thing we know that was in the original Library of Alexandria because it's a list of documents that they had at the library. So there was no reason to have that anywher”
- 4.Unexplainable · What's the oldest story ever told?Noam Hassenfeld · Sep 14 · Listen at 3:43 ↗
“Yeah. I don't know, like, you know, stories before writing, the Odyssey, some like oral tradition.”
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