The funniest thing about the “Odyssey is woke” discourse is

The funniest thing about the “Odyssey is woke” discourse is that people are treating a 3,000-year-old story that survived oral retellings, translations, stage versions, and every film school adaptation imaginable like it was ever a fixed text. Meanwhile, a Dallas screening lost power and the audience apparently stayed because a history teacher started explaining the Trojan War live — which honestly feels way more in the spirit of Homer than fighting on the internet about casting.