Canadian actor Elliot Page plays the Greek soldier Sinon in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey (2026). Sinon participates in the Trojan War and has a key role in the success of the Trojan horse ruse. However, the character is not actually present in either the Odyssey or the Iliad, the epic poems attributed to the poet Homer. Instead, Sinon first appears in the Aeneid, a Latin epic poem written from about 30 to 19 bce by the Roman poet Virgil.
In Virgil’s telling, Sinon pretends to have been abandoned by Odysseus and the other Greeks. He persuades the Trojans that the horse is an offering to Athena that will make Troy impregnable. The Trojans bring the horse inside the city gates, and that night Odysseus and the other Greek warriors inside the horse emerge from their hiding place and open the gates to let in the rest of the Greek army. Previously, there had been speculation that Page would portray Achilles. Find out more about the rest of the cast and the roles they play in Who’s Who in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey: Cast List.