The gods are nowhere to be seen
One of the most radical choices Nolan made was to not cast the majority of the gods of Olympus (with the exception of Zendaya as Athena). “I became more interested in the idea that to people in that period, evidence of gods was everywhere,” he explained to Time. For example, in Bronze Age Greece, thunder and rain had no scientific explanation, they were seen merely as the will of the immortals. In the film, we see these phenomena without ever seeing the…

