The captivating tale of Homer's Odyssey can now be experienced on the big screen courtesy of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. Fortunately, this epic and ambiti

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey follows one of literature's most famous and most laborious voyages home. In Homer's epic tale, Odysseus (Matt Damon) is challenged by the gods, the elements, and a fair few mythological creatures on his way home from the Trojan War.

It’s a tale as old as time. A man leaves his family to go fight in a war across the sea. Once the war is over, he’s thankful to have survived, and it looks like all there is left to do is sail home. Except...it takes about a decade to get from Troy ...

"The Odyssey" is one hell of a journey. Once again, director Christopher Nolan enlists a cast of A-list actors and jumbles timelines to tell his ambitious version of Odysseus' journey from Homer’s "The Odyssey.

Here’s everything to know about The Odyssey characters, mythical creatures and gods. King Odysseus, portrayed by Damon, is the protagonist of The Odyssey. Both the poem and the film center around Odysseus, the Greek king of Ithaca, who battles his way back home after the Trojan War.

In The Telegony, Odysseus travels to Thesprotia. There, he marries queen Callidice, and the two have a named Polypoetes. Then he fights in another war. After Callidice dies, he leaves their son to rule Thesprotia and finally returns to Ithaca.