In this Big Think video, scholar and author Mary Beard talks about her excitement for Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey and why it’s a difficult work to translate. “[The Odyssey] is the most complicated postmodern epic you could ever imagine.”
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