Book 1 (May 15, 2020)
Characters featured: Narrator; Athena, with mighty spear, and in disguise, with sunglasses; Telemachus, in Phillies hat.
No. 1 in the mini readings series created by Emily:
www.emilyrcwilson.com/odyssey...
About the translator:
Emily Wilson is the College for Women Class of 1963 Term Professor in the Humanities, professor of Classical Studies, and graduate chair of the Program in Comparative Literature & Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. Wilson attended Oxford University (Balliol College B.A. and Corpus Christi College M.Phil.) and Yale University (Ph.D.). In 2006, she was named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance & Early Modern scholarship. In 2019 she was named a MacArthur Fellow, and in 2020 she was named a Guggenheim Fellow. She lives in Philadelphia with her three daughters, three cats, and dog.
Follow Professor Wilson on Twitter @EmilyRCWilson. Professor Wilson frequently tweets about the Odyssey, translation, and her pets.
Professor Emily Wilson’s Twitter feed (@EmilyRCWilson) provides her readers with insights into the art of translation. In recent posts, she has analyzed the challenges a translator faces, with examples from the Odyssey and Oedipus Tyrannos (forthcoming from Norton). Wilson also uses Twitter to compare short passages from different English translations of the Odyssey. She comments on how other translators have interpreted different words, phrases, and concepts from the original Greek into English.
In a blog post for The New Yorker, Dan Chiasson wrote about how "Wilson’s presence on Twitter is quietly revolutionary, a new kind of experience for readers, poets, translators, and really anyone who likes to watch knowledge take shape in an open format, its seams exposed" ("The Classics Scholar Redefining What Twitter Can Do", March 19, 2018).
Emily Wilson on 'Growing Up with The Odyssey':
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2...