{"id":21327,"date":"2026-08-01T17:58:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iridaresort.gr\/?page_id=21327"},"modified":"2026-08-01T18:04:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T15:04:54","slug":"christopher-nolans-the-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.iridaresort.gr\/de\/blog\/christopher-nolans-the-odyssey\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Nolan\u2019s \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21329\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21329\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iridaresort.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/The-Odyssey-740x574.jpg\" alt=\"The Odyssey\" width=\"740\" height=\"574\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-21329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A film of Christopher Nolan the Odyssey<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>The release of Christopher Nolan\u2019s \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d has sparked a huge increase in the number of people wanting to read Homer\u2019s heroic epic, one of the greatest works of ancient Greek literature, and learn the Greek language. Some, however, are not particularly pleased with the film adaptation\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Beyond reading habits, the release of Nolan\u2019s film has also sparked interest in learning Greek.<\/p>\n<p>According to Google Trends (via Preply and the Times), there has been a dramatic 5,000% increase in searches for the phrase \u201clearn Greek\u201d over the past two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHomer\u2019s Odyssey was written in Ancient Greek, which differs significantly from the language spoken in Greece today,\u201d Ancient Greek offers the opportunity to get closer to Homer\u2019s original text and the broader classical world, while Modern Greek can help people connect with contemporary Greek culture and communicate with today\u2019s speakers,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>\u0399\u03c4 is a moment to breathe and be moved during what at times feels like a mandatory journey from point A to point B and point C, all the way to Hades and back,\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The release of Christopher Nolan\u2019s \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d has sparked a huge increase in the number of people wanting to read Homer\u2019s heroic epic, one of the greatest works of ancient Greek literature, and learn the Greek language. Some, however, are not particularly pleased with the film adaptation\u2026 Beyond reading habits, the release of Nolan\u2019s film [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":20940,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21327","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iridaresort.gr\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iridaresort.gr\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iridaresort.gr\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iridaresort.gr\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iridaresort.gr\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21327"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iridaresort.gr\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21331,"href":"https:\/\/www.iridaresort.gr\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21327\/revisions\/21331"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iridaresort.gr\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iridaresort.gr\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}