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The Odyssey Translator Emily Wilson Slams Christopher Nolan’s Understanding of Zeus’ Law
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Homeric scholar Emily Wilson has once again blasted Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, this time taking aim at the film’s interpretation of “Zeus’ Law” .
In a previous op-ed, Wilson said she would “be ashamed to have written any part of this script” and that Nolan’s film “lacks psychological, emotional, political, and ethical depth."
Yet the film also suggests that the law of Zeus is concerned with a quite different moral problem: deception,” Wilson argues.
The Homeric Zeus is a cunning schemer, whereas Nolan’s Zeus takes a particularly hard line on deceit, especially in relationships between hosts and guests.
Wilson closes by calling Nolan’s Odyssey “itself a kind of Trojan horse.