by Michael Calvert

“Why is Christopher Nolan’s new Greek epic entirely devoid of Greeks? Set to be this year’s biggest blockbuster, The Odyssey’s cast has been selected to ‘represent the world’… except that one key country seems to have gone completely unrepresented”
—The Guardian

As one with Attic DNA
it really bugs me, I must say,
that in your cast I couldn’t suss
a single Papadopoulos.

How much would it have troubled you
to stick in one Economou?
And how much hassle to provide us
with a token Nikolaidis?

In view of all we Greeks invented
we’re badly underrepresented,
and Nolan, you’re the one we’re blamin’—
C’mon! Odysseus a Damon?