Homer

The epic attributed to Homer was born from a tradition of oral storytelling and has been re-adapted in each generation. Dr. Teddy Fassberg of Tel Aviv University explains why Christopher Nolan's film does not break with tradition –

A University of Barcelona expedition has identified a fragment of Homer's "Catalogue of Ships" inside a Roman-era mummy in Oxyrhynchus. This is the first known case of a Greek literary text in the context of embalming.