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'Odyssey' scholar Emily Wilson is translating the epic, again. This time she's breaking the rules

'Odyssey' scholar Emily Wilson is translating the epic, again. This time she's breaking the rules
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LOS ANGELES — Emily Wilson, the classicist who in a review eviscerated Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey," isn't done with Homer's epic. She's translating the ancient Greek poem again. "It's a complete retranslation. It's not a revision of the old version,"…

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