This bold, modern, and surprisingly readable translation of Homer’s epic about a hero’s return home served as the inspiration for Christopher Nolan’s big-budget film. Wilson uses language that is new, simple, and slender. It is uncommon to come across a translation that is both so meticulously thought out and so naturally easy to read. Circe’s author, Madeline Miller The Odyssey, a poem about bloodshed and the aftermath of battle, wealth, poverty, and power, marriage and family, travellers, hospitality, and the longing for home, was written nearly three millennia ago, during the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature.
