Emily Wilson

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214 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 12 Jul

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The Daily · What’s Epic About the ‘Odyssey’? Everything. · 12 Jul 2026 podcast

And Madeline, what do you think of Odysseus?

I mean, I think it's pretty muddle-headed, really.

Already in antiquity, the Homeric poems were adapted for performance.

All of that was already happening in the 5th century and probably much earlier.

So it doesn't seem to me that the idea that adapting this poem for performance is...

There's a right way to do it.

There are many ways to do it.

And Nolan obviously has his own vision, and it's easy to see how the Odyssey story already resonates with classic Nolan tropes about time and memory.

I think it's totally fine and valid for a director to explore his own vision.

And you're saying he's part of a long lineage of creators who have done this.

And making them ridiculous.

The gods look bad in this poem.

We shouldn't be performing that one.

Totally, yes.

Homer's invulnerable.

Yeah, exactly.

It's fine.

I mean, whatever things Nolan does that might be different from what either of us would do if we had the IMAX camera, that's fine.

That's his right to do that.

I mean, I have questions about how is Nolan going to center the story in ways that might be very different from what the poem is doing.

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