Maria Peña writes: “Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster adaptation of The Odyssey introduces the epic poem attributed to Homer to a new generation of moviegoers, turning a nearly 3,000-year-old story into a fresh cultural touchstone. The Library of Congress’s collections, covering centuries of time, document how artists, cartographers, and translators around the world have translated and reimagined Odysseus’s journey anew. The LC’s holdings on work attributed to Homer go back about 2,000 years, with a papyrus fragment from The Iliad, the precursor to The Odyssey.”
