An African rapper with rasta hair plays the Greek poet at the opening of Nolan's The Odyssey. No Greeks are cast and no Greek is spoken despite the source material. Jews get jews, but Greek history gets anyone but Greeks. Hollywood's cultural rules are very consistent until the subject is European.
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With this in mind: whence cometh the Fuzz?
Another item to consider is the director. What is he really doing? Broaching a subject?
Compare it to woke Disney producing Andor and Skeleton Crew. Fans exasperate. Yet, the real message there is:
Then the next question: Did anyone producing his opinion already seen the movie?
If Athena is not a Greek word, then why is the capitol of Greece, Athens?
Why is it that the goddess Athena is in Greek mythology?
Why is in the western world: Christianity the main course?
Battle of Waterloo? You can search all you want in the US, but you won't find the site. Or how about Harlingen? I'm sure, if you are looking for the red rock, you'll end up in Colorado instead of the border of the Suyder See.
How about Groningen in Minnesota. If you try to find the Ole Grey Lady, you'd be looking in the wrong place.
How about Wahallagara in Punjab, India. Strabo notes Alexander encountered what he called Germans ..or Geertmannen.
When it comes to Helen: we can posit: Helsinki, Helsingbor, Hellegat, Helleburg, we find it in Northern Europe but not in what we now know as Greece? formerly known as Javan? So, how did Greece become reverend of Minerva/Athena?
You start with the name. If it means nothing in Greek, you will have to posit: cultural appropriation, the same way as Jeshua means nothing in English, German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian or Swedish. It is an infusion.
The same way, Hellas, hellespontes were transfused geographically.
And I would go one step further: democracy did not start in what we now know as athens, but is a perversion of a transported idea, adapted to local understanding.
I can't proof it in a court of law. But Historians and archeologist turn out too much bullshit, and certain countries will gladly embrace it. That is not to say: Anything post say 600/500 AD from Greece is crap. But what is attributed without proof, should be rigorously denied and given a different source more in line with observable facts.
All the men you listed are from the northeastern Mediterranean are they not?
Are the racially different?
I was born and rasised 1/2 mile from Wisconsin and would strongly deny being a cheese head myself. Very strongly deny it. I'm a yooper and proud of it.
I believe it to be so. But .... one word of warning.
Turks have been fucking around in that area since at least the 15th century and heavily influenced the racial makeup, leaving a different dna makeup, than was the case in the time of Alexander (400 BCE) or even more farther back in time.