And even with older folks like me. I read lots and lots of Greek mythology when I was a kid, but all prose translations, who knows how many translations deep. Bulfinch’s and knock offs basically. Now I own the Great Books collection have for years, which of course has The Iliad and The Odyssey, but I’d never cracked that volume open. Came home from seeing The Return a couple years ago, which included see a poster for Nolan’s Odyssey, and decided to read them. Still haven’t gotten around to the Aeneid, soon hopefully.
Fagles was our go-to translation for the Iliad and the Odyssey
There were audio CDs to go along with Derek Jacobi and also someone else though I cannot find on google am away from home so can’t put my hand on it right now. But difficult to find on google
For review to prep for the film, I used Stephen Fry’s narrative version in book and audio.
I don’t see that Nolan missed any essential elements. As for the race of the actors, I couldn’t be less interested.
The hatred pouring out toward Nolan being more seething than toward anyone trying to subvert our constitution over the past 30 years, I cannot explain. It can’t be toward the film. There’s nothing wrong with the film. Nolan himself has been widely discounted as informed, much less, educated, yet he has extensive lifelong education in the classics.
Anyway. I suggest Fagles with any good word for word audio to go along.