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'Odyssey' translator Emily Wilson says Nolan shouldn't have written the movie himself

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Classics scholar Emily Wilson drew widespread attention with a critical review of Christopher Nolan's Odyssey film adaptation, per NPR News. Wilson, who has translated both Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, argues that Nolan shouldn't have written the film himself. Her piece in the London Review of Books went viral.

Source: https://www.npr.org/2026/07/29/nx-s1-5910645/odyssey-tran...

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