Odysseus
Not Greek to them. Scholars question Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’
NEW YORK | For Greek translator Emily Wilson, the release of director Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” has been gratifying in various ways. Her acclaimed 2017 edition of Homer’s epic has reached the top 5 on Amazon.com, leading a wave of similar books boosted by the movie. Nolan has even cited her translation, notably the opening […]
Movie Review: In Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey,’ an ancient epic is reborn
Getting home, and turning back the clock, has long been at the root of Christopher Nolan’s films. The astronauts of “Interstellar” painstakingly lose 23 years in space travel, almost the same length of time Odysseus is away from home in “The Odyssey”: a decade fighting the Trojan War, a decade trying to return to Ithaca. […]
Who is Telemachus, again? Circe? A guide to the characters of Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’
NEW YORK | Haven’t cracked “The Odyssey” since high school? Don’t worry, you don’t need a classics degree to understand Christopher Nolan’s adaptation. One of his primary goals was to make it accessible and relatable to a modern audience. “It’s something that we all know a little bit about, some of us know a lot […]