For nearly 3,000 years, Homer’s “The Odyssey” has reigned as literature’s ultimate road trip.

Scheming Odysseus may have been the first modern man with a self-directing mental life while other archaic heroes blindly obeyed the gods.

With the recent release of Christopher Nolan’s long-awaited film adaptation, Yale’s Benedek Kruchió considers how the “poem of multitudes” has been adapted and reimagined over…