Older Is Better

At least that's what I keep telling myself.

I have not seen Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey yet, but I have a ticket for next week. I’m looking forward to it, though I expect to share Mary Beard’s opinion that it lacks the humor and sex of the poem. Odysseus, she writes,

is playful, ironic, witty, dangerously deceptive and sometimes an out-and-out liar — so much so that the reader will always wonder w…