Christopher Nolan Film Savaged by Ultimate ‘Odyssey’ Expert

Photo by Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pic The world-renowned classicist and translator of Homer’s The Odyssey, whom filmmaker Christopher Nolan credited as inspiring his blockbuster film, has slammed the movie. Emily Wilson, one of the foremost authorities on Homeric poetry and the first woman to translate The Odyssey into English, wrote a brutal review of Nolan’s film for The London Review of Books, after Nolan expressed his admiration for her work. “I would be ashamed to have written any…