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Emily Wilson’s fluent new translation of the Iliad honours the epic poem’s power and beauty

The Conversation
Reading Wilson's Iliad, one senses something of the chant of Homer's verse, even through the written word.
10 months ago

A recollection of David Grene

Chicago Maroon
Grene was the world's greatest living classicist, translator of Herodotus and editor, with Richmond Lattimore, of The Complete Greek Tragedies.
24 months ago

Letter of Recommendation: Christopher Logue, ‘War Music’ (Published 2015)

The New York Times
A beloved version of the ''Iliad,'' by a translator who knew no Greek.
108 months ago

Finding Sappho: Four translations in conversation

The Stanford Daily
Few poets in human history have inspired such lasting devotion as Sappho. Yet, for the majority of Sappho's readers over the millennia,...
85 months ago

A Version of Homer That Dares to Match Him Line for Line (Published 2017)

The New York Times
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...
83 months ago

Perspective | Emily Wilson on 5 crucial decisions she made in her ‘Iliad’ translation

The Washington Post
From 'dog-face' to 'death runs fast,' Wilson explains how she worked to revitalize Homer while remaining true to the ancient Greek.
14 months ago

What Emily Wilson’s ‘Iliad’ Misses

The Atlantic
Her new translation is inviting to modern readers, but it doesn't capture the barbaric world of the original.
14 months ago

RICHARD LATTIMORE DEAD; A CLASSICAL SCHOLAR AND POET (Published 1984)

The New York Times
Richmond Lattimore, a classical scholar and a poet whose translations of ''The Iliad'' and ''The Odyssey'' became standard texts in many schools, died of...
489 months ago

Winged words

The Economist
The Iliad of Homer. Translated by Richmond Lattimore. University of Chicago Press; 608 pages; $35. Buy from Amazon.com. The Iliad.
157 months ago

Englishing the Iliad: Grading Four Rival Translations

The New Yorker
This week in the magazine, Daniel Mendelsohn reviews a new version of Homer's Iliad, translated by Stephen Mitchell. He also discusses the...
157 months ago