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, the classicist who in a review eviscerated Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” isn’t done with Homer’s epic. She ...
Emily Wilson is retranslating Homer’s The Odyssey from scratch, less than a decade after her acclaimed first version and ...
The resilient, best-selling translator set off a wave of conversation with her two pans of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.
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 ...