What’s Epic About the ‘Odyssey’? Everything.
This episode of The Daily prepares listeners for Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film The Odyssey by exploring Homer’s epic through the insights of two leading modern interpreters: Emily Wilson, the first woman to translate the Odyssey into English, and Madeline Miller, author of Circe
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