The right hates The Odyssey because of its ‘wokeness’ – but it missed an even bigger threat to its worldview | Peter Swallow

Especially when Christopher Nolan’s film has been getting rave reviews, “the vast majority … written by men”, as the Guardian’s Catherine Shoard has pointed out. But as ridiculous as that all is, the right shouldn’t hate Nolan’s Odyssey for its inaccuracies. Xenia, which Nolan translates as “Zeus’s law”, was an ancient custom that governed how people were supposed to treat strangers. People (and monsters such as the Cyclops) who break Zeus’s law are punished; those who uphold it (such as Odysseus’s son, Telemachus) are rewarded. The message for a modern audience is, again, not subtle: society will collapse if we abandon our rules-based international order.