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https://fromoldbooks.org/r/5j/pages/000-frontispiece-image-withdrawal-from-troy/
and cover and title page at https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Sachsen-Odyssey/
Bought Homer’s Odyssey (cheaply) in Germany in 2019 on a GIMP meetup. Maybe it’s a good time to post some scans :-) The bookseller turned quite hostile when i mentioned the Web, said the Web was putting him out of business.
#homer #odysseus #Odyssey #vintageEngraving #vintageArt #fobo #greekMyth #bookCover #GIMP
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OUCH! The Translator of #TheOdyssey Just Slammed #ChristopherNolan’s Movie
“I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script,” wrote #EmilyWilson, the first woman to translate The Odyssey into English.
By Josh OsmanPublished: Jul 27, 2026 1:20 PM EDT
Excerpt: "Throughout her piece, the scholar notes that no adaptation should necessarily follow an original exactly. (In fact, she praises some radically reinterpretations of The Odyssey, including #MargaretAtwood's #Penelopiad, #MadelineMiller's #Circe, and other literary classics that riff off the text, including those of #Euripides, #JohnMilton, and #JamesJoyce.)"
#ClassicsBookClub #Classics #Movies #Homer #AncientGreece #ReadABook
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For anyone in a tl;dr state of mind, @TheJournal has a decent synopsis here:
"'Abysmal writing' and 'no sex': Odyssey translator's scathing review of Christopher Nolan film"
https://www.thejournal.ie/emily-wilson-odyssey-review-7115521-Jul2026/
#EmilyWilson #LRB #Homer #TheOdyssey #ChristopherNolan #Film #GreekMythology
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Oh my god, this review of "The Odyssey," by Emily Wilson - who has translated Homer's original into English - is BRRRRRRRUTAL. The mere mortal Nolan is BODIED. Wilson, a god on earth, SLAYS.
and so on.
Read it, and have a giggle:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n14/emily-wilson/an-uncomplicated-man
h/t @TheJournal
#EmilyWilson #LRB #Homer #TheOdyssey #ChristopherNolan #film #GreekMythology
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In case anyone’s interested: I can still recite the beginning of the #Odyssey from memory. In Ancient Greek. 😎 🤓
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Why has Christopher Nolan got rid of all the sex in The Odyssey? | Zoe Williams https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/28/christopher-nolan-sex-the-odyssey #TheOdyssey #Film #Culture #Homer
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Why has Christopher Nolan got rid of all the sex in The Odyssey? | Zoe Williams
By Zoe WilliamsIt’s a bit of a mystery why it takes Odysseus so long to get home if he’s not shacking up with Calypso and others ...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/28/christopher-nolan-sex-the-odyssey
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Epic review by Emily Wilson on whose translation Nolan's version is based. Blewski's effervescent wi excitement re this piece
'I had hoped that Nolan’s affinity with these Homeric themes might push him to new creative heights, and enable him to conjure more believable characters. But *The Odyssey* features his usual combination of grandiosity and superficiality'
#cinema #homer #odyssey #film #culture
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n14/emily-wilson/an-uncomplicated-man
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The recklessness of their ways destroyed them all.
[Αὐτῶν γὰρ σφετέρῃσιν ἀτασθαλίῃσιν ὄλοντο.]Homer (fl. 7th-8th C. BC) Greek author
The Odyssey [Ὀδύσσεια], Book 1, l. 7ff (1.7) (c. 700 BC) [tr. Fagles (1996)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/homer/46491/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #homer #odyssey #consequence #death #destruction #divinejudgment #folly #incaution #punishment #recklessness
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ICYMI: Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey: The Popgeeks Review https://popgeeks.com/christopher-nolans-the-odyssey-the-popgeeks-review/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #ChristopherNolan #Odyssey #MovieReview #Homer #PopCulture
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‘I would be ashamed to have written any part of this’: Odyssey translator Emily Wilson attacks Nolan blockbuster https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/27/odyssey-translator-emily-wilson-attacks-nolan-blockbuster #Film #TheOdyssey #Homer #Books #Culture #Classics #ChristopherNolan
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‘I would be ashamed to have written any part of this’: Odyssey translator Emily Wilson attacks Nolan blockbuster
By Andrew PulverWilson, whose work on Homer’s epic was praised by Nolan, said his film was grandiose and superficial with ‘nothing convincing to say’
#Film #TheOdyssey #Homer #Books #Culture #Classics #ChristopherNolan #TheGuardian #AndrewPulver
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Joyce Carol Oates thinks the 90s TV adaptation of The Odyssey is the best. I beg to differ | Stuart Heritage
By Stuart HeritageThe Hallmark Channel’s ropey version of The Odyssey is going viral for its star-studded cast. Christopher Nolan’s film only looks better by comparison
#TheOdyssey #ChristopherNolan #Film #Culture #MattDamon #Homer #JoyceCarolOates #IsabellaRossellini #ChristopherLee #Television #Televisionradio #UStelevision #Actionandadventurefilms #FantasyTV #TheGuardian #StuartHeritage
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Dwie Odyseje
Na urlopie nie zajmuję się Chinami, ale od czasu do czasu będę wrzucał coś krótkiego „off topic”.
Obejrzałem “The Odyssey” Nolana i spodobała mi się. Gdybym musiał wybierać pewnie wolałbym „The Return” Pasoliniego, ale nie muszę wybierać. Mogą mi się podobać obydwie adaptacje.
https://wp.me/p3fv0T-isV #TheOdyssey #TheReturn #Odyseja #UbertoPasolini #ChristopherNolan #EmilyWilson #Homer #POLECANE
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CW: WARNING: LONG READ about The Odyssey, Greek mythology and languages (NO SPOILERS) --- Just got back from the cinema, I saw The Odyssey. I liked it, it wasn't the usual over-the-top Hollywood action movie, it was the real story that I remember from school, long ago ...
Just got back from the cinema, I saw The Odyssey.
Don't worry: no spoilers, although I do mention a few names. If you don't know the story, that won't spoil anything. If you do know the story, you already know those names 😄
I liked it, it wasn't the usual over-the-top Hollywood action movie, it was the real story that I remembered from school, long ago: the most fantastic monsters, gods and heroes, but also a lot of personal drama and existential questions. Not unlike the bible, as I said to @Erik van Zijst earlier this week...
Exactly as I remember, the continuous internal struggles of the protagonist. A Greek tragedy, so to speak 😇
There's nothing superficial in Greek mythology and drama, it's layer upon layer upon layer: everything is connected.
Historical details
As stated, I remembered most of it, especially a few minor but emotional details. Only makes sense that Nolan used those too, they're the cherries on the cake.
All the names of important people were familiar: Clytaemnestra, Penelope, Agamenmon and his brother Menelaos, Telemachus and Helena.
Bit unexpected that Helena was played by a black actress: that would seem unlikely, given that she was from Troy, which is in the North-West of Turkey. Add to that that Homer describes her as light-skinned, which makes sense if you realize she was a princess and probably didn't get as much sun as most others.
Back in school
I remember our Greek teacher explaining us why that white colour was important: just like in later cultures it meant that someone didn't need to be out in the sun all day to work, it was a sign of wealth and power, it was a skin colour that was desired and opened doors that remained closed for most. See the parallel with present day society..? 😇
Greek teacher, as in: the man who taught us Greek. He was Dutch, just like the rest of us 😏
But having a black Helena is Nolan's choice, I'm fine with it. It's not the only historically unlikely/incorrect detail. But it is one that will undoubtedly spark racist posts online, that's how it is these days. @Noortje Van Leeuwen already mentioned something in that direction earlier. O tempora, o mores...
I'm not on what some people still call "social" media, so I'm blissfully ignorant of the bile that must be flowing there now. Glad we rarely see that on the Fediverse 🙏
Memories mixed up
I remembered most of the story lines and plot, I could even spoil a small but intense event near the end of the film for my mum, almost at the beginning 😏
But I confused Jason and Odysseus here and there, because in my memory the Cyclops appeared in The Golden Fleece... Wasn't sure about Skylla and Charibdis, but those were in the Odyssey as well 🤔
So I'll have to (partially re-)read both the Iliad and Odyssey, and the Golden Fleece, even if only to jog my memory 😄
adds three more books to the to-read list
Only this time I'll read a Dutch translation, my Greek has become a bit rusty over the past few decades 😄
It was difficult enough to translate and understand it when I was in school, when I had all my books at hand and a teacher who could help, and who loved to go into historical, mythological, cultural, archaeological and linguistic (yes, really 😏) details. I loved it.
I'm so glad that I took Greek and Latin, it has taught me so much more than "just" two languages. So-called "dead languages" even. Greek and Latin are all over our modern languages, every European language, science, medical terms...
Pretty much every "difficult" or "complex" word in pretty much any language is Latin, Greek or a combination of both. If you know and recognize those ancient words in it, you usually have a pretty good idea of what this word must mean in this language today. I think @Yoïn van Spijk can confirm this 😉
Do read what he posts about languages and the connections between them if you're into languages, you won't be disappointed.
Anyway, that's why I have always frowned when they are called "dead" languages: they're still everywhere to this day 😄
#Odyssey #Homer #GreekMythology #Iliad #GoldenFleece #MemoryLane #Latin #Greek #Dutch #language #cinema #rant -
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey: The Popgeeks Review https://popgeeks.com/christopher-nolans-the-odyssey-the-popgeeks-review/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #ChristopherNolan #TheOdyssey #Homer #MovieReview #FilmAnalysis
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Neuer Blogbeitrag in #paysages Blognotiz 25.07.2026: Bemerkungen zur #Odyssee und dem Hund #Argos #ChristopherNolan #DieOdyssee #theodyssee #Homer #Stromboli #Cinema #Ulysse #Reclamuniversalbibliothek #HaraldFrommer #geographie #historischegeographie #RolandHampe #Zambrone #mastolivre #bookstodon #odysseus
https://cneffpaysages.blog/2026/07/25/blognotiz-25-07-2027-bemerkungen-zur-odyssee-und-dem-hund-argos/ -
RE: https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/116049524710995589
Some history behind #TheOdyssey . Pretty much, #Colonialism!
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If you can't get enough of Homer's epics (in modern formats), try this podcast:
https://trojanwarpodcast.com/The storyteller did a followup series based on the Odyssey.
#Homer #Odyssey #Iliad #Trojan #Odysseus #podcast #antiquity
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@Gerd_Brodowski
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When Homer wrote that line roughly 2,800 years ago, he was capturing the bronze-age logic of agrarian pillage—where stealing a neighbor’s herds, burning their crops, and seizing their animals was the ultimate expression of tribal dominance and territorial displacement.
