The fact that no one seems to show care with Greek cultural identity, like it is just this collective past for all modern Europeans and Anglos is so gross. There is this fantastic video essay on modernizations and attempts to "fix" Greek myth by a student of the Classics that I absolutely love. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tL3Pbc_zhU&t=5s

She made me question the way Greek history is abused both for reactionary and liberal pan-European identity. To quote Katerina Cosgrove

If these writers co-opt Greek oral histories, handed down from mouth to mouth and generation to generation, I don’t see them leaving any room for minority Greek writers, within Greece and in the diaspora, to tell their own stories and to have any hope of getting them published and garnering attention. My Greek publisher, the oldest house in the country, is struggling to stay afloat in the new Greece. Greek writers can’t get published. Maybe the Greek myths don’t belong only to the Greeks. Yet I wonder why the international publishing industry chooses these particular books to champion, white writers writing for white audiences – a structural issue that I can’t begin to unravel here. Greece has suffered from many waves of colonisation, and this feels like the latest.

I’m not saying these writers should not have written these books. The West has always appropriated Greek cultural heritage for its own purposes. The easy aspects are often celebrated while the marginalisation of Greek peoples – both ancient and modern – is rendered invisible. I am saying, though, that we should be thoughtful and humble, listening and approaching any culture’s myths with a healthy dose of respect, even dread and wonder. The Greek gods would be justly pleased by this, I think.

https://islandmag.com/read/who-owns-the-greek-myths-by-katerina-cosgrove

This along with the fact that the British effectively made up a "real" ancient Greek language you could learn because they felt then-modern Greeks did not deserve their own fucking history, derisively calling their language "Demotic Greek" (the people's Greek) really put me off from people like Nolan telling this story.

They wanna talk about "our" canon, as if there is some direct line from Homer to Milton, that some Brit is the heir to that legacy. Said youtuber has a video on this aspect as well actually, in which she talks about Boris Johnson using recitation of the Iliad as part of this pantomime of Greek culture, to cloak modern western Europe in someone else's past.