Emily Wilson (classicist)

British classicist, professor (b. 1971)

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Nolan’s Odyssey is itself a kind of Trojan horse,
There is a stranger outside your house,
  • writes classicist Emily Wilson in the final paragraph of her 91-page introduction to her own translation into 21st century English of Homer’s ancient Greek epic poem The Odyssey
    Irish Timesirishtimes.com/opinion/an…
I mean, it’s going to be exciting that so many people who may have thought, Oh, ancient literature is boring, or it’s not for me, or it’s too inaccessible, are then going to realize, actually, this is a really compelling story,
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of The Odyssey into iambic pentameter. But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.”
The release of The Odyssey is still an event to celebrate,
This muddled subplot is foisted on the film in order to make Nolan’s relentlessly didactic point about the contemporary Anglophone world: that the lies and xenophobia of the war on terror and Brexit began a cultural decline that is now destroying the values ‘we’ hold most dear,

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