{"id":575782,"date":"2026-07-30T17:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/575782\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T17:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:05:09","slug":"why-the-odyssey-endures-whyy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/575782\/","title":{"rendered":"Why The Odyssey endures – WHYY"},"content":{"rendered":"

The nearly three-thousand-year-old story of Odysseus and his ten-year struggle to get home to Ithaca and his wife, Penelope, after the Trojan War has been told, retold, interpreted and reinterpreted. The Odyssey alone has inspired more than 60 English translations and dozens of movie and TV adaptations. Christopher Nolan\u2019s block buster version of The Odyssey is shattering box office predictions with close to a billion dollars in ticket sales worldwide.<\/p>\n

This week:\u00a0why does Homer\u2019s epic poem endure, what does it have to say about the human condition and what does Nolan get right and wrong about the story?<\/p>\n

We\u2019re joined by two guests:<\/p>\n

University of Pennsylvania Classics professor Emily Wilson\u2019<\/a>s 2017 translation of The Odyssey was praised for its accessible and musical use of language. She recently panned Nolan\u2019s film.<\/p>\n

Neel Burton<\/a> is a psychiatrist and philosopher whose writing explores the wisdom of the ancient world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The nearly three-thousand-year-old story of Odysseus and his ten-year struggle to get home to Ithaca and his wife,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278,242814,38],"class_list":["post-575782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-the-connection-with-marty-moss-coane","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}