Wilson's second op-ed slammed Nolan's take on xenia, or what the film calls Zeus' Law, and how Odysseus's ruse with the ...

Christopher Nolan had cited her original translation and its opening sentence as inspiration for his epic film. Wilson did ...

Wilson, who was the first woman to translate the Homeric tale into English, caused a firestorm when she criticized ...

Emily Wilson is retranslating Homer’s The Odyssey from scratch, less than a decade after her acclaimed first version and ...

Odyssey' translator Emily Wilson is taking another stab at the epic, this time as a translator who's thrown constraints to ...

Emily Wilson to retranslate The Odyssey from scratch after declaring Nolan’s version ‘abysmal’ - Translator says she’s ...

A woman translated it. A man filmed it. The culture war that followed says less about Homer than about who still gets to decide whose story counts. Why would a University of Pennsylvania classics ...

A billion-dollar blockbuster meets its fiercest critic. Join us as we break down classicist Emily Wilson's viral review of Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey," the academic debate it ignited, and the ...

Christopher Nolan's adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey crossed $1.1 billion at the global box office over the weekend of August 8–10, 2026 — overtaking The Dark Knight Rises to become Nolan's ...

DALLAS — As a moviegoer, Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” was a thrill for Dennis Kratz. He was mesmerized by the whirlpool, enthralled by the cyclops scene, dazzled at Circe’s transfigurative powers ...