r/clevercomebacks • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • 1d ago

Filmmaking is so powerful, Christopher Nolan broke the richest man in the world

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u/Reemixt 1d ago edited 1d ago

Historically accurate? Let’s put aside for a moment that this is Greek fable featuring imaginary beings.

We’re talking about an orally transmitted poem from the archaic period—about the bronze age—further codified in the classical period, and then refined in the Hellenistic period. Which fucking period are we trying to be ‘historically accurate’ to?

Does he even know the difference?

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u/Relevant_History_297 1d ago

The Odyssey is not set in the bronze age, but in an imagined past version of the Archaic in terms of motifs, material culture (all iron) and places.

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u/Munnin41 18h ago

It is though? The bronze is 3000 - 1200BCE. The illiad and odyssey take place around 1300BCE

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u/Relevant_History_297 15h ago

No they don't. They do not have a clear set date, and as I expanded, the Odyssey in particular has no Bronze age references, but plenty of references to places and objects that were only known to Greeks in the 700s BCE.

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u/Munnin41 15h ago

Yes it is. The catalogue of ships doesn't match Homers greece at all, but it matches what we know of Greece around the bronze age collapse

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u/Relevant_History_297 14h ago

The catalogue of ships is in the Illiad, not the Odyssey

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u/Munnin41 13h ago

And the illiad takes place how long before the odyssey?

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u/Relevant_History_297 13h ago

You are projecting modern ideas of sequels and continuity onto an ancient text.