Tom Holland (not that one) battles with Elon Musk over ‘Odyssey’

A historian who shares the famous actor’s name has waded into the discourse over the Christopher Nolan film on X, where Musk has been among the right-wing critics.

His name is Tom Holland, and he has plenty of strong opinions about “The Odyssey.” Just don’t mistake him for one of the film’s stars.

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Holland, a U.K.-based historian, has built a following of more than 372,000 on X, where he shares insights on topics ranging from the Greco-Persian Wars to the height of the Roman Empire.

But this month, as Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s epic “The Odyssey” arrives in theaters, Holland has found himself stepping into a very different arena: the culture wars.