Elon Musk, who does not rate Christopher Nolan’s film of The Odyssey very highly, has said: ‘Before this year ends, Grok [Musk’s AI] will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer.’ Around 1200 bc the city that Homer calls Troy or Ilium was destroyed by fire and warfare. The problem is that there is no evidence at all that VIIA was attacked by Greeks. But there are passages in the Iliad which could be said to match some of the features of VIIA. Since oral poets worked by drawing on earlier versions of the story, our versions of the Iliad and Odyssey contain a centuries-old mishmash of political structures, culture, language, weapons, gods, myths, monsters and so on.