FSU classics professors available for interviews on the upcoming film "The Odyssey"

Florida State University Department of Classics professors Virginia Lewis and Stephen Sansom are available to discuss the upcoming film “The Odyssey,” director Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated adaptation of Homer’s classic Greek poem.

Both professors are experts on Greek literature and poetry, speaking at length on the anticipation of the film recently in the FSU College of Arts and Sciences’ Nole Edge podcast. FSU’s Department of Classics offers a dedicated course on film adaptations, with plans to incorporate Nolan’s film in future coursework.

Lewis has interests in Greek poetry and theories of space and place. She has published articles on Pindar, Sophocles, Herodotus and Sicilian coinage. Her recent book, “Myth, Locality, and Identity in Pindar’s Sicilian Odes,” examines the role played by local places, myths and religious cults in epinician poetry for victors from Sicily.

Sansom specializes in early Greek poetry and its reception, especially epic and digital humanities. His research investigates Greek epic from literary, computational and comparativist perspectives. His first monograph project, The Hesiodic Shield of Heracles and the Aesthetics of Olympus, situates the Shield of Heracles in the politicized aesthetics of Hesiod’s cosmos.

“The Odyssey,” which has a reported $250 million budget and a star-studded cast, is scheduled for a wide theatrical release on July 17.

Virginia Lewis may be contacted via email at vlewis@fsu.edu. Interview inquiries for Stephen Sansom can be made at sas22u@fsu.edu.