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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Penelope recognizes Odysseus (Odyssey, Book 23). Read by Emily Wilson, the first woman ever to translate the Odyssey into English. Over 1,000 people—including hundreds of students—visited Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Music Hall on a snowy Friday night for this special International Poetry Forum event. This reading took place in December 2024, 50 years after Richmond Lattimore’s visit to the International Poetry Forum. Since 1966, International Poetry Forum has hosted hundreds of the world’s greatest po
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