Ancient Greek myths, rewritten for a world in crisis

Classics and myths have a way of making us look at humanity and society across the ages. The buzz surrounding Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” his adaptation of Homer’s epic, is a reminder that stories of heroes from thousands of years ago can still speak to urgent questions about the world today — including the fractures left by war and the sustainability of civilization. That is also why German playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig reimagined ancient Greek mythology in “Anthropolis” (2023), a fi