Director Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, a film adaptation of Homer’s Greek epic, has garnered more than a billion dollars at the box office and reacquainted audiences with the power of classical mythology. Of all the literary sources that adorn our English language, classical Greco-Roman mythology is one of the richest. We constantly speak and hear and write and read the names of the ancient gods and goddesses and heroes and heroines, even if we don’t always know it. The most famous of the epic poet Homer’s creations spent 10 years after the fall of Troy wandering through the ancient world encountering sorceresses and cyclopes (one-eyed monsters with 20/ vision). The wily hero’s name, Odysseus, lives on in the word odyssey,