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The classicists are fighting! Emily Wilson, whose celebrated Odyssey translation bucked historically Western and misogynistic approaches, has caused quite a stir with her scathing critique of Christopher Nolan's film in the London Review of Books. Far from a stuffy academic take, her text recognizes the murkiness of adaptations and still insists that Nolan bungles the questions of humanity and morality at the center of the epic:But the representation of Odysseus as a reluctant warlord makes
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