{"id":967,"date":"2026-07-17T16:44:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityrelocationnews.com\/?p=967"},"modified":"2026-07-17T16:44:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:44:53","slug":"who-owns-the-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityrelocationnews.com\/?p=967","title":{"rendered":"Who Owns the Odyssey?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><em>Download a transcript.<\/em><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><em>Listen and subscribe:<\/em> Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen<\/p>\n<p><em>Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In its nearly three-thousand-year history, the Odyssey has undergone as many twists and turns as its protagonist does on his journey home to Ithaca. Its origins as oral poetry suggest countless revisions before it was even put into text\u2014and many more followed, as translators have wrestled with how best to express Homer\u2019s ancient Greek verse in their own languages. On this episode of Critics at Large, Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz consider the latest rendition, a film adaptation by the director Christopher Nolan. The movie\u2019s two-hundred-and-fifty-million-dollar budget, A-list cast, and use of cutting-edge <em>IMAX<\/em> technology make it maximalist in every sense of the word. It\u2019s elicited glowing reception from early viewers\u2014and faced pre\u00ebmptive criticism from the right. Drawing on the scholar Emily Wilson\u2019s 2017 translation of the epic, Nolan has modernized the dialogue; his focus on the erosion of societal values also speaks directly to the anxieties of our era, in which so many norms and institutions feel newly precarious. \u201cThe Odyssey persists because the world does keep on evanescing behind us,\u201d Cunningham says. \u201cThe question of how to move on is always fresh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cityrelocationnews.com\/?p=966\">Mother Tongue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read, watch, and listen with the critics:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Odyssey\u201d (2026)<br \/>\u201cPlanet of the Apes\u201d (1968)<br \/>\u201cOppenheimer\u201d (2023)<br \/>\u201cTroy\u201d (2004)<br \/>\u201cWhy the Odyssey Keeps Defeating Filmmakers,\u201d by David Denby (<em>The New Yorker<\/em>)<br \/>\u201cL\u2019Odissea\u201d (1968)<br \/>Emily Wilson\u2019s translation of the Odyssey<br \/>Robert Fagles\u2019s translation of the Odyssey<br \/>Daniel Mendelsohn\u2019s translation of the Odyssey<br \/>\u201cThe Dark Knight\u201d (2008)<br \/>Shakespeare\u2019s \u201cHamlet\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cityrelocationnews.com\/?p=964\">Paul Thek\u2019s Eclectic Art<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New episodes drop every Thursday. Follow Critics at Large wherever you get your podcasts.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cityrelocationnews.com\/?p=962\">Christopher Nolan Has Always Been Making \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The director Christopher Nolan has been accused of \u201cwoke-ifying\u201d Homer\u2019s epic. 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