‘The Odyssey’ Translator Emily Wilson blasts Nolan's 'abysmal' film, 'would be ashamed' to have made it

The author of a controversial translation of "The Odyssey" that helped influence Christopher Nolan’s adaptation panned the film in a scathing review.

Emily Wilson, who wrote what some call a feminist translation of Homer’s "The Odyssey" that helped influence the film, panned director Christopher Nolan’s adaptation for missing the spirit of the original heroic epic. The film has also been criticized for the casting of certain characters, using modernized American dialogue, reshaping the warlike...