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Why is Nolan's "Odyssey" missing the gods?

2026-08-04 17:48:18Histori SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

"The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" represent the birth of Western literature and the foundations of ancient Greek culture.

Attributed to the legendary poet Homer, these two epic poems mark the decisive transition from a very long oral tradition to its codification in written form.

In these works the gods spoke and they were closely related to humans. These texts were not just entertainment.

For the Greeks they represented a true tribal encyclopedia: they contained the religious laws, behavioral patterns, geography, and shared history of a people.

Without the Homeric poems, later literature (from Greek tragedy to Virgil's "Aeneid" and Dante Alighieri) would never have been born.

Many adaptations of these works have been made into cinematography, including, most recently, Christopher Nolan's.

According to critics, this film lacks the fundamental and primary role of the voice of the gods; in the film, only Athena speaks and only in a single moment.

Meanwhile, in Greek mythology, the gods ruled people almost like "automatons."

In this regard, Julian Jaynes' theory, presented in the book "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind", is interesting, according to which our brain, divided into right and left hemispheres, functions in different ways.

According to him, the right hemisphere is the "silent hemisphere", the one that drives emotional reactions, while the left hemisphere - the dominant one - is the hemisphere of language and the most important human functions.

It was precisely with the works of Homer, according to this theory, that the right hemisphere was given voice, before this function was abandoned.

The right hemisphere is the one that "listens" to the gods; in "The Odyssey," the protagonist is guided and advised by the gods, who display the same passions and instincts towards the hero as humans.

This part, according to the author, is completely missing from Christopher Nolan's film narrative.

From a narrative point of view, this leaves aside a fundamental stage of cultural evolution: the transition from the birth of many gods to the concept of a single God, an archetypal act that, also through literature – suffice it to mention the Holy Scriptures – created a new way of understanding the divine…


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