Who is Telemachus, again? Circe? A guide to the characters of Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’

Haven’t cracked “The Odyssey” since high school? Don’t worry, you don’t need a classics degree to understand Christopher Nolan’s adaptation. One of his primary goals was to make it accessible and relatable to a modern audience.

“It’s something that we all know a little bit about, some of us know a lot about it, some of us know nothing about it,” Nolan told The Associated Press. “We’re making the film for that whole range of people’s relationship with this foundational text of this incredible story.”

But, just in case, here’s a little primer on who is playing who in “The Odyssey.” The film hits theaters on July 17.

Matt Damon (Odysseus)

The King of Ithaca and the mastermind behind the Trojan Horse trick that ended the war, Odysseus’s long journey home to reclaim his kingdom and reunite with his wife, Penelope, and son, Telemachus, whom he left as a baby, is central to the poem.