In “The Odyssey” (2026) Elliot Page was cast as a Greek soldier but he is 5’1" and 110Ibs. Matt Damon is 5’10" 185Ibs. People are complaining that Page doesn’t resemble the build of a Greek soldier even though the average Greek soldier was 5’4" and 130 Ibs. Page is closer than Matt Damon!

  • TeaWithDani
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    20 hours ago

    How can it be historically accurate if it’s a myth? The Trojan War is at best legendary, none of these people existed.

    • Uruanna
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      12 hours ago

      none of these people existed.

      There actually was an Alaksandu (Alexandros = Paris) king of Troy, and an Achaean that the Hittites knew as Attarsiya (possibly Atreus in Greek, who is the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus), and there was a cult of Odysseus in the right region before Homer, so some of these people did exist - but probably didn’t participate in a single war - rephrasing: in one same war. Surely several names were well known in tradition, and Homer simply mixed a bunch of them in a single story.