{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Emily Wilson with Sarah Ruhl: The Odyssey Onscreen","description":"\u201cTell me about a complicated man.\u201d So begins Emily Wilson\u2019s contemporary translation of Homer\u2019s Odyssey \u2014 establishing her as the definitive Homeric translator of our time and radically transforming how we understand a cornerstone of western literature. As The Odyssey enters the pop cultural arena this summer via Christopher Nolan\u2019s big-screen adaptation \u2014 a film inspired by Wilson\u2019s translation \u2014 she joins us for a conversation about why the The Odyssey has endured for nearly 3,000 years. In the first English translation of The Odyssey by a woman, written in a vivid contemporary idiom, Wilson captures the beauty and enchantment of Homer\u2019s poem without poeticizing its carnage \u2014 a profound reflection on violence, marriage, and family. Nearly a decade after that translation gave Homer \u201ca radically contemporary voice\u201d (The New York Times Magazine), and nearly three millennia after it was originally composed, The Odyssey remains shockingly relevant. In this conversation with the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Sarah Ruhl, whose work is profoundly influenced by Greek myth and famously modernized Eurydice for the stage, Wilson asks: what can a story about travelers and the aftermath of war tell us about our own world in an era of mass migration, riven by military and political conflict? What can this epic of a \u201ccomplicated man\u201d reveal to us about contemporary masculinity and violence? In a nation rooted in myths of rugged individualism and sacred homeland, how does The Odyssey hold up a mirror to American life? Hear Wilson and Ruhl discuss The Odyssey\u2019s circuitous path through the waters of Western culture \u2014 from ancient song to modern verse to Hollywood. Find out how this archaic text, in the hands of a master translator, can offer a startling vision of how we live today. \u201cWilson\u2019s language is fresh, unpretentious and lean\u2026 It is rare to find a translation that is at once so effortlessly easy to read and so rigorously considered.\u201d \u2015 Madeline Miller ","author_name":"92NY Talks","author_url":"https:\/\/www.92ny.org\/archives\/featured-series\/talks-podcast","html":"