A fascinating contrarian view of The Odyssey. I disagree with some of this, but I certainly can't argue with the bona fides of its author. (Also, given that the London Review of Books website is currently down, this seems to be the most traffic the website has received in quite some time.)
EMILY WILSONI wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...