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The Odyssey translator criticizes Christopher Nolan's movie for its "abysmal" writing and lack of sex scenes

Emily Wilson slams The Odyssey in a 4,000-word takedown

Total Film · Jul 28

The Odyssey translator who inspired Nolan calls his screenplay ‘abysmal’

Translator Emily Wilson says she ‘would be ashamed to have written any part of its script’

The Independent UK · Jul 28

Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' drives Homer book sales and sparks interest in learning Greek

The release of Nolan's 'The Odyssey' has sparked a huge surge in people wanting to read Homer's ancient poem and learn the Greek language. Some purists, however, aren't best pleased with the cinematic adaptation...

Euronews · Jul 28

Homer’s Odysseus was never a perfect hero. Christopher Nolan’s film understands this

Homer’s The Odyssey has long been held up as a powerful example of “the hero’s journey” – a narrative structure that has dominated storytelling for millennia.

The Conversation · Jul 21

What do scholars really think of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey?

It’s all Greek to them

The Independent UK · Jul 19

Homer’s Odyssey transformed in film and in translation

Letters: Alex Dickie on Uberto Pasolini’s 2024 film, Darryl Accone on differing translations of the Greek original, and Roberto Breña on the excitement around Christopher Nolan’s new version

The Guardian - UK · Jul 17

Friday essay: I’ve been reading The Odyssey my whole life. Nolan’s film version is exhilarating – but not perfect

I first read The Odyssey during the summer holidays when I was 15 years old. Parked under the shade of the mulberry tree in our Brisbane backyard, I would read, grab a few mulberries, then read some more, my fingers sometimes staining the pages dark purple. It was a secondhand…

The Conversation · Jul 16

A voyage of discovery: an idiot’s guide to reading The Odyssey

Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of the ancient Greek epic has sparked a new appetite for an old classic. Here are the translations, podcasts and audiobooks that make the Homeric world more approachable

The Guardian - UK · Jul 16

‘More postmodern than ancient’: why the Odyssey is everywhere, from Oz to Westeros

Christopher Nolan’s take on the Odyssey is set to break box-office records. What made the director so determined to adapt the ancient Greek epic? And why does a poem from 600BC hold a vice-like grip on pop culture?

The Guardian - UK · Jul 12

The Guardian view on Homer: The Odyssey is more modern than we might like to think

Editorial: The universal themes addressed by one of humanity’s greatest storytellers more than merit Hollywood box-office treatment

The Guardian - UK · Jul 10