The Odyssey (2026)

Szlia said:

There is a difference between a translation and an adaptation. In his adaptation Nolan is using the source material but culled things, added things and transformed things both to have the story connect with a modern audience and to emphasize the themes he wanted the movie to be about. The work of historians and translators informed the work of Nolan, but at the end of the day his job was to adapt the source material, to make it say what he wanted to say. People interested in what Homer had to say can read the Odyssey. The book did not suddenly disappear when Nolan's movie hit theaters. In fact it is pretty safe to say it created a renewed interest in the original text and its analyses / translations.

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Talos said:

When the Flood narrative in Genesis was told it was to reinterpret a common story through a different lens. It wasn't reporting news. It assumed people were already familiar with the Flood.

This is no different.

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• • Historical Reality: The Church treats the account in Genesis as a true event that actually happened in human history, wiping out a corrupt civilization. [1]
  • New Testament Witness: Jesus Christ and the Apostles (such as St. Peter) spoke of Noah and the flood as real history, using it as a literal type and a warning for the final judgment. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  • Typology and Allegory: While historical, the physical Ark is simultaneously understood as an allegory or "type" of the Church—the vessel that saves humanity from the chaos of a dying world. [1, 2]

• • Shared Cultural Memory: The existence of flood stories in other ancient Near Eastern cultures (like the Epic of Gilgamesh) is seen by Orthodox writers not as proof that the Bible just copied a myth, but as a distorted, polytheistic memory of an actual global catastrophe that affected early mankind. [1, 2, 3, 4]
  • Correction of Pagan Myths: The Biblical account is viewed as the divinely revealed, accurate version that strips away the erratic, capricious polytheism of pagan tales to reveal the one true God acting out of justice and mercy. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  • Non-Fundamentalist Literalism: Orthodoxy does not approach Genesis as a modern scientific or geological textbook, meaning the exact physical mechanics or localized-versus-global scientific debates are secondary to the spiritual and historical reality of God's judgment and salvation. [1]

Cybsled said:

The end of the ice age alone caused tons of apocalyptic floods - tons of cultures around the world have flood myths. Are some just retellings of oral history of the ice age stuff? Maybe. But human civilizations also happened to mostly crop up near rivers, which flood. Doesn't take god going "lol i gonna drown teh earth!" to come up with a story of a fucking flood since humans through out history take the mundane or normal and craft big complex stories about those being less mundane.

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Siliconemelons said:

No…its telling the true story of the flood that others are adaptations of…

Is that what Catholics believe lol? It’s just one of many flood story adaptations… no wonder they all think that all religions are okay and true etc. (even after the number crunch change lol)


Even the orthodox…

The Orthodox Approach to the Flood

• • Historical Reality: The Church treats the account in Genesis as a true event that actually happened in human history, wiping out a corrupt civilization. [1]
  • New Testament Witness: Jesus Christ and the Apostles (such as St. Peter) spoke of Noah and the flood as real history, using it as a literal type and a warning for the final judgment. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  • Typology and Allegory: While historical, the physical Ark is simultaneously understood as an allegory or "type" of the Church—the vessel that saves humanity from the chaos of a dying world. [1, 2]

Views on Ancient Parallels

• • Shared Cultural Memory: The existence of flood stories in other ancient Near Eastern cultures (like the Epic of Gilgamesh) is seen by Orthodox writers not as proof that the Bible just copied a myth, but as a distorted, polytheistic memory of an actual global catastrophe that affected early mankind. [1, 2, 3, 4]
  • Correction of Pagan Myths: The Biblical account is viewed as the divinely revealed, accurate version that strips away the erratic, capricious polytheism of pagan tales to reveal the one true God acting out of justice and mercy. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  • Non-Fundamentalist Literalism: Orthodoxy does not approach Genesis as a modern scientific or geological textbook, meaning the exact physical mechanics or localized-versus-global scientific debates are secondary to the spiritual and historical reality of God's judgment and salvation. [1]

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Cybsled said:

The end of the ice age alone caused tons of apocalyptic floods - tons of cultures around the world have flood myths. Are some just retellings of oral history of the ice age stuff? Maybe. But human civilizations also happened to mostly crop up near rivers, which flood. Doesn't take god going "lol i gonna drown teh earth!" to come up with a story of a fucking flood since humans through out history take the mundane or normal and craft big complex stories about those being less mundane.

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