Emily Wilson (classicist)

Emily Rose Caroline Wilson (born 1971) is a British-American classicist, author and translator. She is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2018 her translation of Homer's Odyssey became the first by a woman into English verse. Her translation of the Iliad was released in 2023. Quotes Translations The Odyssey (2017) thumb|Tell me about a complicated man.Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lostwhen he had wrecked the holy town of Troy. Tell me about a complicated man.Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lostwhen he had wrecked the holy town of Troy,and where he went, and who he met, the painhe suffered in the storms at sea, and howhe worked to save his life and bring his menback home. He failed to keep them safe; poor fools,they ate the Sun God’s cattle, and the godkept them from home. Now goddess, child of Zeus,tell the old story for our modern times. Book 1, line 1 I never saw two people so alikeas this boy and Telemachus, the sonof spirited Odysseus, the childhe left behind, a little newborn baby,the day the Greeks marched off to Troy, their mindsfixated on the war and violence.They made my face the cause that hounded them. Book 4, line 141 (Helen) Demeter with the cornrows in her hair. Book 5, line 125 She told her slaves with tidy hair,"Now listen to me, girls! The gods who liveon Mount Olympus must have wished this manto come into contact with my godlike people.Before, he looked so poor and unrefined;now he is like a god that lives in heaven." Book 6, line 238 He ripped them limb by limb to make his meal,then ate them like a lion on the mountains,devouring flesh, entrails, and marrow bones,and leaving nothing. Watching this disaster,we wept and lifted up our hands in prayerto Zeus. Book 9, line 291                                  Penelopedecided she must show herself to theseungentlemanly suitors. Book 16, line 410 There never were such bullies as these men,and they intend us harm. Book 17, line 587 (Penelope)                                  She went upto her own room. Her muscular, firm handpicked up the ivory handle of the key—a hook of bronze. Book 21, line 7 Zeus, the god of home owners. Book 22, line 335 "Now I have told the secret trick, the token.But woman, wife, I do not know if someone—a man—has cut the olive trunk and movedmy bed, or if it is still safe."                                 At that,her heart and body suddenly relaxed.She recognized the tokens he had shown her. Book 23, line 202          They did great wrong,through their impulsiveness; they skimmed the wealthof an important man, and disrespectedhis wife, believing he would never come. Book 24, line 458 (Halitherses) Compare: Green · Verity External links Category:1971 births Category:Living people Category:Academics from the United States Category:Translators from the United States Category:Translators of Homer Category:University of Oxford alumni Category:University of Pennsylvania faculty Category:Women authors from the United States Category:Immigrants to the United States