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A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1,000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold more than a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan

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A Lee Enterprises, Incorporated newspaper. Majority shareholder: David Hoffmann, Hoffmann Media Group.

A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1,000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold more than a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan

• Rosa Cartagena, The Philadelphia Inquirer
• Jul 27, 2026
• Jul 27, 2026
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Professor Emily Wilson, at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, July 4, 2026. (Jessica Griffin/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS)

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Professor Emily Wilson, in her office at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, July 4, 2026. (Jessica Griffin/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS)

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Professor Emily Wilson, in her office at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, July 4, 2026. (Jessica Griffin/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS)

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Professor Emily Wilson, in her office at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, July 4, 2026. (Jessica Griffin/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS)

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Rosa Cartagena, The Philadelphia Inquirer

PHILADELPHIA -- Classics scholar Emily Wilson was in Greece’s Costa Navarino last year when she heard the news that would change her life: Filmmaker Christopher Nolan was planning to release a star-studded adaptation of "The Odyssey," the epic poem that Wilson had spent years painstakingly translating from Homeric Greek into English.

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