Even if that were the case, the Odyssey is a work of fiction; we don't even know if Homer actually existed, if he was a single person or multiple story tellers blended together by lack of details...

"Critics" pretending to know and be outraged about X not been exactly what they thought when they read the book cliff notes in their mom's sock smelling basement are just noise

[–] ImADifferentBird@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's so weird to be complaining about the accents. It's a movie that takes place in ancient Greece, FFS; we have no idea what their accents would sound like if they were somehow capable of speaking modern English, since their entire culture pre-dates audio recording technology (and modern English, for that matter) by multiple millenia.

Seriously, people are just weirdly conditioned to the classical world speaking with a British accent for some reason, I guess.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

the people that complaint about accents probably would walk away if the movie was actually made in ancient greek with subtitles

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

even so, who cares? it's not a documentary

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Yes, I agree with you. Those were simply additional bloviated discussions I saw.