{"id":287098,"date":"2026-07-28T13:10:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T09:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=287098"},"modified":"2026-07-28T14:26:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T10:26:50","slug":"nolans-the-odyssey-sparks-surge-in-homer-book-sales-and-interest-in-learning-greek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/287098\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolan\u2019s \u2018The Odyssey\u2019 sparks surge in Homer book sales and interest in learning Greek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey continues its global box office domination, pulling more than $650 million worldwide after just two weeks in theatres. The film is on its way to crossing the coveted $1 billion mark, Euronews<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

More impressively, it’s not just driving people to head to the cinemas…<\/p>\n

Since its release, the film has been responsible for a surge in people heading back to the classics and reading Homer’s ancient poem. There’s a reported 70 per cent increase in UK sales this year compared to 2025; daily listening hours for “The Odyssey” in France have risen by more than 752 per cent on Spotify in mid-July compared to the previous month; and book sales have risen by 76 per cent in the US since the start of the year according to date from Circana BookScan.<\/p>\n

Beyond reading habits, the release of Nolan’s film has also sparked interest in learning Greek.<\/p>\n

According to Google Trends (via Preply and The Times), there has been a spike in searches for “learn Greek”, which have risen by 5,000 per cent in the last fortnight.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey continues its global box office domination, pulling more than $650 million worldwide after just two weeks in theatres. The film is on its way to crossing the coveted $1 billion mark, Euronews writes. More impressively, it’s not just driving people to head to the cinemas… Since its release, the film has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":287080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-culture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287108,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287098\/revisions\/287108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}