Emily Wilson is a woman of twists and turns. The University of Pennsylvania classicist is perhaps most famous for being the ...

Emily Wilson is doing something Odysseus only managed once: The British scholar is embarking on her second voyage through The Odyssey. Wilson first completed her version of Homer’s epic poem in 2017, ...

"The Odyssey" translator Emily Wilson is not a fan of Christopher Nolan's big-screen adaptation. Wilson trashed the film in her review for the London Review of Books, which was published Monday and ...

Undeterred and perhaps encouraged by the wave of conversation (and astronomical book sales) surrounding Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, Emily Wilson has announced plans to translate Homer's epic yet ...

Wilson, a University of Pennsylvania professor of classical studies, will re-translate the ancient Greek epic from scratch less than a decade after her acclaimed version. Photo: AP If you’re among the ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 Acclaimed Homer scholar Emily Wilson has more to say about the summer blockbuster. The Odyssey expert Emily Wilson isn’t finished slamming Christopher Nolan’s ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 Nolan’s favorite translator called the film’s screenplay “abysmal.” The world-renowned classicist and translator of Homer’s The Odyssey, whom filmmaker ...

In her op-ed for the Atlantic, Wilson explains how one of her big issues with Nolan’s movie is its approach to “Zeus’ law.” The phrase is repeated numerous times by characters in the movie and is a ...

NEW YORK – If you're among the many readers who learned to love “The Odyssey” through Emily Wilson's 2017 translation, you might be surprised that she's going to translate it again. “It's a complete ...

"The writing is abysmal. None of the characters has convincing motivation for their actions or words," she wrote, outlining several problems she had with the adaptation. Wilson further explained why ...