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Emily Wilson
British-American classicist and translator; professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania; her verse Odyssey (2017) was the first English translation by a woman, followed by the Iliad (2023).
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You do not have to fit a pre-existing mould to have a brilliant, successful career.
This is also great news for Translation, Classics, Poetry, the breaking of generic and disciplinary boundaries, and the fact that you don't have to fit a pre-existing mould to have a brilliant, successful career.
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What is wrong with Zack Snyder’s 300 is not that it gets Herodotus wrong but that it is a bad film.
What's wrong with "300" isn't that it gets Herodotus wrong (who cares? Not me). But it's a bad film.
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What is wrong with Zack Snyder’s 300 is not that it gets Herodotus wrong but that it is a bad film.Their words
What's wrong with "300" isn't that it gets Herodotus wrong (who cares? Not me). But it's a bad film.
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But it’s not “personal” to analyze a film or other work of art, even negatively. Criticism is more than “Hurray!” or “Hiss!”
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Whatever its merits as art, Nolan’s Odyssey does good by bringing new audiences to ancient literature.Their words
Whatever one thinks of the film as a work of art, it's doing some good in the world, by generating big conversations, bringing new audiences to the cinema, and new readers to ancient literature.
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The film centers Odysseus's guilt over his war crimes, but never shows us the POV of his victims, and instead glorifies the perpetrator for feeling bad about himself.
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Big budgets are a trap for Christopher Nolan, who is better at taut, premise-driven small films.Their words
I think the money is a trap. It's easier to suspend disbelief if the actors are less famous. The huge budget leads him to attempt grand jam-packed epics, when he's better at taut, very premise-y small films.
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Adaptations are often most successful when they make clear, courageous choices about what to leave out.Their words
Adaptations are often most successful when they make clear, courageous choices about what to leave out
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Adaptations may do whatever their creators want with the source; often the more they diverge from it, the better.Their words
Adaptations can do whatever the creators want with the source material, and in many cases, the more they diverge from or push back against the original, the better.
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I also love the way the image signals that the Odyssey is about complex interactions between people. That strikes me as a more accurate characterization than the usual cover imagery (a boat). Most of the poem doesn't take place at sea.
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The AeneidTheir words
The Aeneid is interesting as a poem deeply engaged with rewriting the Odyssey and re-imagining scenes from it.
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Paradise LostTheir words
But the Odyssey specifically is interesting to think about in Paradise Lost because it’s both the wrong story and the right story.
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The PenelopiadTheir words
The Penelopiad takes that hint from Homer, asking, ‘What would it be like if we had the whole story not through Odysseus’s perspective, but Penelope’s?
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You do not have to fit a pre-existing mould to have a brilliant, successful career.
This is also great news for Translation, Classics, Poetry, the breaking of generic and disciplinary boundaries, and the fact that you don't have to fit a pre-existing mould to have a brilliant, successful career.
@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social on Bluesky Said 8 Oct 2026
What is wrong with Zack Snyder’s 300 is not that it gets Herodotus wrong but that it is a bad film.
What's wrong with "300" isn't that it gets Herodotus wrong (who cares? Not me). But it's a bad film.
@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social on Bluesky Said 14 Aug 2026
Analysing a film or other work of art negatively is not a personal attack.
But it’s not “personal” to analyze a film or other work of art, even negatively. Criticism is more than “Hurray!” or “Hiss!”
@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social on Bluesky Said 29 Jul 2026
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Adaptations may do whatever their creators want with the source; often the more they diverge from it, the better.
Adaptations can do whatever the creators want with the source material, and in many cases, the more they diverge from or push back against the original, the better.
@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social on Bluesky Said 27 Jul 2026
Adaptations are often most successful when they make clear, courageous choices about what to leave out.
Adaptations are often most successful when they make clear, courageous choices about what to leave out
@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social on Bluesky Said 27 Jul 2026
Big budgets are a trap for Christopher Nolan, who is better at taut, premise-driven small films.
I think the money is a trap. It's easier to suspend disbelief if the actors are less famous. The huge budget leads him to attempt grand jam-packed epics, when he's better at taut, very premise-y small films.
@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social on Bluesky Said 27 Jul 2026
Nolan’s Odyssey glorifies Odysseus for feeling bad about his war crimes while never showing his victims’ point of view.
The film centers Odysseus's guilt over his war crimes, but never shows us the POV of his victims, and instead glorifies the perpetrator for feeling bad about himself.
@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social on Bluesky Said 27 Jul 2026
Whatever its merits as art, Nolan’s Odyssey does good by bringing new audiences to ancient literature.
Whatever one thinks of the film as a work of art, it's doing some good in the world, by generating big conversations, bringing new audiences to the cinema, and new readers to ancient literature.
@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social on Bluesky Said 27 Jul 2026
The Odyssey is about complex interactions between people, not mainly about the sea.
I also love the way the image signals that the Odyssey is about complex interactions between people. That strikes me as a more accurate characterization than the usual cover imagery (a boat). Most of the poem doesn't take place at sea.
@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social on Bluesky Said 22 Jul 2026
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Recommends The Penelopiad
The Penelopiad takes that hint from Homer, asking, ‘What would it be like if we had the whole story not through Odysseus’s perspective, but Penelope’s?
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Recommends Paradise Lost
But the Odyssey specifically is interesting to think about in Paradise Lost because it’s both the wrong story and the right story.
fivebooks.com 9 Nov 2018
Recommends The Aeneid
The Aeneid is interesting as a poem deeply engaged with rewriting the Odyssey and re-imagining scenes from it.
fivebooks.com 9 Nov 2018
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