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The Odyssey may not have invented the narrative concept of a journey home—but it sort of owns the idea. Turns out producing a massive piece of writing that becomes incredibly popular and lasts for thousands of years does actually function as a sort of artistic shotgun-call on the loose conceptual framework of the thing you’ve written. Fair enough, I guess.
What this means is that, while there are of course your more direct adaptations of Homer’s original story, like that big film…
