In 2017, Emily Wilson made history by becoming the first woman to translate Homer’s Odyssey into English. She didn’t soften it or modernize it—she went back to the Greek. Heroes became “complicated,” not noble. Enslaved women were called “slaves,” not servants. Penelope emerged as strategic, not passive. By stripping away centuries of bias, Wilson revealed a harsher, more honest epic than readers had ever seen. She didn’t change Homer. She let him speak clearly for the first time in 400 years—an
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Emily Wilson of Penn Arts & Sciences is renowned for her English translations of Homer’s ancient Greek epic poems. First “The Odyssey” and now “The Iliad” have attracted extensive coverage in the press and attention on social media. Book talks, during which she performs dramatic readings in both languages, are filled to capacity. “I’m quite a shy person, and to me it’s quite strange to have all this spotlight and attention,” she says. View the Full Excerpt Reading: https://bit.ly/3OjqCLd | Unive
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