#WhatWereReading : Joe decided to revisit The Odyssey, ahead of this year's Christopher Nolan film adaptation, thoroughly enjoying Emily WIlson's excellent translation & interpretation from W.W. Norton.

A good excuse to reacquaint ourselves with one of the pillars of world storytelling (and let's face it, storytelling is one of the things humans are astonishingly adept at).

Come sail the wine dark seas...

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#LunchtimeReading : a long overdue revisit to Homer. I read The Odyssey back when I was doing Classical Studies (the only subject I ever won the school prize for).

Now reading Emily Wilson's rather superb, newer translation ahead of Nolan's upcoming film. Been meaning to read her acclaimed version, then saw Nolan name-check it in an interview, so it's time.

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Now that the first teaser trailer has dropped for Christopher Nolan’s IMAX extravaganza of Homer’s “The Odyssey,” I’ve decided it’s long past time to actually read the thing.

A little research brought me to the “radically contemporary voice” of Emily Wilson’s 2017 translation, and what I’ve read so far is lucid and spectacular. This is the one!

The movie won’t be out until mid-July of 2026, so I’ll be savoring it daily, a few pages at a time. I love big reads.

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𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗜𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗮” 𝗯𝘆 𝗘𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝘀𝗼𝗻 -

Wilson assembles a worthy-enough fantasy in a terrific setting: ancient Sumer. Even so, the liberties she takes with the original myths undermine their complexity and cater to contemporary markets.

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Finished: as I read The Iliad
—we ALL read The Iliad.
That was fun. Violent, but fun.

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A nice encapsulation by the translator, Emily Wilson, in the notes (p.710 referring to Niobe)

... but as a whole the poem, The Iliad, has "a magical beauty, [..] in [its] presentation of unending grief as both natural and divine, and of trauma as both limited and unlimited, both personal and universal.”

The Iliad
Homer & Emily Wilson

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“The Fates gave humans an enduring heart.”

Excerpt From
The Iliad
Homer & Emily Wilson

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“As in a dream, the chase goes on forever—
you never catch, you never get away—”

Excerpt From
The Iliad
Homer & Emily Wilson

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