While promoting his latest blockbuster, filmmaker Christopher Nolan listed scholar Emily Wilson’s translation of “The Odyssey” as one of his influences. Amid the heated controversy over one of the year’s biggest films, there may be a silver lining to the discourse. Why Wilson trashed Nolan’s adaptationWilson’s expertise in the classics is undeniable. However, after seeing Nolan’s adaptation, Wilson said she would be “ashamed to have written any part of this script” at The London Review of Books. Of all the topics we could watch people fight about online, “how someone adapted ‘The Odyssey’ is such a good one.”