Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” starts much like the Homeric epic on which it’s based, depicting a series of trials that befall Odysseus (Matt Damon) on his long journey back to Ithaca from the ...

You probably have a copy of The Odyssey somewhere on your bookshelf, gathering dust. It might be annotated from college or be sitting mostly unread, dog-eared halfway through. Even if you read and ...

You already know everyone, right? No? OK, once around the room. This strapping fellow who looks a bit like Matt Damon? Odysseus. And this lovely lady with the Anne Hathaway smile? His wife, Penelope.