[phoronixrly]

> Emily Wilson is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton, The Death of Socrates and a biography of Seneca. She has also translated Seneca and Euripides as well as both the Iliad and the Odyssey.

It seems to me they did indeed try, and you didn't even check who the author was.

[traes]

Writing a screenplay adaptation of a poem and writing a translation in contemporary language are entirely different endeavors.

[vintermann]

They're pretty related endeavors. Not literally the same of course, but in both cases you're trying to convey something profoundly alien (because of its age) to a modern audience.