A new translation of the Iliad of Homer is cause for a general celebration, especially when the translator is Emily Wilson of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Grene was the world's greatest living classicist, translator of Herodotus and editor, with Richmond Lattimore, of The Complete Greek Tragedies.
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SINCE THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY, English translators have been striving to do justice to The Iliad. It is a poem of brutal, relentless violence,...
145 months ago

Few poets in human history have inspired such lasting devotion as Sappho. Yet, for the majority of Sappho's readers over the millennia,...
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THE ODYSSEY By Homer Translated by Emily Wilson 582 pp. W. W. Norton & Company. $39.95. Dismal as it has been in other respects, the fall of...
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When Emily Wilson translated the Odyssey, she changed the epic forever. Has she done it again with the Iliad?
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From 'dog-face' to 'death runs fast,' Wilson explains how she worked to revitalize Homer while remaining true to the ancient Greek.
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The 2024-25 academic year officially began on Tuesday, Sept. 3 with the first day of classes and the annual Convocation ceremony and...
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Richmond Lattimore, a classical scholar and a poet whose translations of ''The Iliad'' and ''The Odyssey'' became standard texts in many schools, died of...
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The Iliad of Homer. Translated by Richmond Lattimore. University of Chicago Press; 608 pages; $35. Buy from Amazon.com. The Iliad.
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