Colleges Pitch Classics Studies as ‘The Odyssey’ Takes Over

Jack Davis is exactly where you’d expect a professor of Greek archaeology to be over summer break: in Pylos, Greece, researching the Palace of Nestor. “It’s hotter than Hades,” Davis says, an appropriate reference — both Hades and the Bronze Age palace figure in Homer’s epic poem

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Jack Davis is exactly where you’d expect a professor of Greek archaeology to be over summer break: in Pylos, Greece, researching the Palace of Nestor. “It’s hotter than Hades,” Davis says, an appropriate reference — both Hades and the Bronze Age palace figure in Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, which was adapted by Christopher Nolan into a film out this month.

Davis, who’s at the University of Cincinnati, caught the film last Friday in a local outdoor theater. (Also appropriate for a story set thousands of years ago, the venue did not have comfortable chairs.)