Matt Damon is Christopher Nolan's Odysseus – but what's wrong with his armour? - Not to be an insufferable history nerd, but ...

The stories cover the end of the Trojan War, Odysseus's meeting with the Cyclops ... They'll build a wooden horse and leave it outside the gates of Troy as an offering to the goddess Athena ...

Christopher Nolan's ambitious next film, The Odyssey, finally delivers the sequel to Troy, Wolfgang Peterson's 2004 epic ...

In short, the Trojan Horse was a Porsche or Ferrari, not a Ford. Odysseus also recruited an elite of warrior commanders (managers) to wait inside the Horse. Finally, Odysseus didn't only talk the talk ...

6. Odysseus and the Trojan Horse It seems the Trojan War will never end...until Odysseus concocts an unlikely plan. 7. Odysseus and the Cyclops On their return from Troy Odysseus and his crew put ...

Odysseus is the soldier who came up with the idea for the famous Trojan Horse, a huge, hollow, wooden horse given to the city of Troy as a gift that was truly a way to smuggle soldiers inside the ...

Nolan's choice to adapt Homer's epic makes sense given the filmmaker's tryst with common themes in some of his previous films ...

But Damon looks suitably grizzled, as befits the cunning Ithacan king that went AWOL after masterminding the Trojan Horse stunt ... So why is Damon’s Odysseus dressed up in some random swords ...