DEAR SOPHIA,

IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY TO KNOW YOU HAVE BEEN STUDYING MYTHOLOGY AND THE OLD LEGENDS. BEFORE THERE WERE THE SUPERHERO MOVIES, THE GREEK MYTHOLOGY WERE THE TALES WRITTEN FOR ADULTS. NOTHING IN THE PRESENT COMPARES TO THE GREEK MYTHOLOGY. THAT CHRISTOPHER NOLAN HAS TAKEN THE TIME TO USE HIS TALENT TO CREATE THE ODYSSEY FILM FILLS ME WITH SUCH JOY. WHEN YOU SEE THE MOVIE, REMEMBER THAT YOUR HERITAGE, YOUR BLOODLINE, IS ROOTED IN ALL THE AREAS WRITTEN ABOUT IN MYTHOLOGY. THERE IS NO PART OF EUROPE (AND EUROPE IS NAMED AFTER A WOMAN WHO WAS KIDNAPPED FROM TYRE WHOSE NAME WAS EUROPE) THAT IS UNTOUCHED BY GREEK MYTHOLOGY. THE MORE APPROPRIATE NAME IS HELLENIC MYTHOLOGY. HELLENIC IS MORE APPROPRIATE BECAUSE THE HELLENES WERE ALL DIFFERENT TRIBES OF HELLENES, WHICH IN THE MODERN DAY IS JUST CALLED, “GREEK.” BUT THE CLASSICAL WORD TO DEFINE IS HELLENIC OR HELLENE. THE ITALIANS, FRENCH, SPANIARDS, LIBYANS, MOROCCANS, AND ALL THE OTHERS AROUND THE AEGEAN AND MEDITERRANEAN SEAS ARE HEAVILY INFLUENCED BY OUR HELLENIC CULTURE. THEREFORE YOU AS A DAUGHTER OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE AS WELL AS THE HELLENIC AND TROJAN ENCOMPASS THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION. ALWAYS BE PROUD OF THIS HERITAGE BECAUSE NO OTHER CULTURE CAN MAKE THE CLAIMS THAT YOU CAN AS A BIRTHRIGHT.

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LOVE,

DAD