Emily Wilson to retranslate the Odyssey, less than a decade after her landmark version
The classicist, whose 2017 English translation inspired Christopher Nolan's film, is starting over after publicly attacking the movie's script.
Emily Wilson, the first woman to translate Homer's Odyssey into English, is to produce an entirely new translation of the epic, according to The Guardian. The announcement comes less than ten years after her acclaimed 2017 version, which is widely credited with shaping Christopher Nolan's recent blockbuster adaptation of the poem.
The Guardian reports that the decision follows a public falling-out between Wilson and the film. This summer she gave a scathing assessment of Nolan's adaptation, calling its writing "abysmal" and criticising, among other things, its lack of sex scenes.
No further details on the new translation — timeline, publisher, or what will change from her 2017 text — are given in the available reporting.
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