Though art is the depiction of a subject, it's also a reflection of the creator. Ask ten people to draw a horse, and you'll have ten different drawings--all roughly depicting the same thing, though the images will be far from identical. There are few better examples of this principle in action than the Trojan War. Though we've been making art about the subject for thousands of years, you'd be hard-pressed to find two identical representations. Take these depictions of "the judgement of...

I love everything about books: reading them, writing them, annotating them, and now...re-binding them! (A.K.A. giving them new covers).

Acclaimed director Chistopher Nolan's The Odyssey is coming out this summer, and the official trailer dropped yesterday. Before I give my two cents, let me begin by saying that I have nothing but respect for creators. It requires an unfathomable amount of energy to direct an epic on this scale, and I'm under no illusions that I could do a better job. Furthermore, I'm not some stick in the mud who thinks the classics can never be interpreted. I've written several such stories myself, think...