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An abandoned SpaceX rocket travelling at around 5,400mph is expected to crash into the moon, leaving a crater with a diameter of around 17m. (via BBC)
The collision is expected to take place today at 7:35 BST, just under an hour from the time of this post.
My completely made up Odyssey theory is that Poseidon never actually expected to stop Odysseus from reaching Ithaca. He only wanted to make sure that the man who returned was no longer the same man who left Troy.
In other words, the curse wasn’t about preventing the destination but rather it was about destroying the version of Odysseus who sailed away. Every encounter strips something from him. The Cicones shatter the illusion of an easy victory. Polyphemus punishes his pride. Aeolus exposes the fragility of trust. The Laestrygonians erase most of his army. Circe humbles him. Hades forces him to confront mortality. The Sirens test his desire for forbidden knowledge. Scylla teaches him that a king sometimes has to sacrifice men to save the many. By the time he washes ashore on Ithaca, he’s not the triumphant hero of Troy anymore but rather he’s a survivor.
My reason for calling it ridiculous is that Homer never says Poseidon had some grand psychological lesson in mind. And in the Odyssey, Poseidon’s motivation is much simpler for Odysseus blinded his son, Polyphemus, so the god seeks revenge. That’s it. My theory is just a modern way of reading the story, not something supported by the text.
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They do worship Athena that’s precisely why the scene hits so hard.
In Nolan’s The Odyssey, the beheading of the Athena statue is deliberately match-cut to Greek soldiers killing a young Trojan priestess of Athena (also played by Zendaya) inside her own temple during the sack of Troy. It’s not random vandalism or a rejection of the goddess. It’s pure hubris and the chaos of victory: the same men who prayed to Athena for victory still desecrate her sacred space and slaughter her devotee the moment they win.
That act becomes the root of Odysseus’s guilt. The “Athena” who later appears to him throughout the journey is either the goddess taking the face of the slain priestess to haunt him… or (as Nolan himself leans) a psychological manifestation of the war crime he can’t escape. Either way, the statue’s head coming off isn’t about them not worshipping her
it’s the visual proof that they betrayed everything she stands for.