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Emily Rose Caroline Wilson (born 1971) is a British American classicist, author, translator, and Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2018, she became the first woman to publish an English translation of Homer 's Odyssey .
Sep 11, 2023 · “Tell the old story for our modern times,” Homer entreats his muse, in the Odyssey’s first stanza. The translator Emily Wilson took him at his word.
Emily Wilson is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, holding the College for Women Class of 1963 Term Professor in the Humanities. Wilson attended Oxford University (Balliol College B.A. in Classics and Corpus Christi College M.Phil. in Renaissance English Literature) and Yale University (Ph.D. in Classics and ...
Nov 7, 2023 · Wilson went on to read classics at Oxford, studying ancient Greek and Roman literature, philosophy, and history. Because of her interest in how antiquity can be reinterpreted in later periods, she earned a master’s degree in English literature before traveling to Yale for her doctorate in classics.
Feb 29, 2024 · Emily Wilson is professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, best known for her translation of Homer’s Odyssey – the first by a woman into English – and, more recently, Iliad.
Nov 20, 2017 · “Tell me about a complicated man.” So begins Emily Wilson’s new translation, which reveals how the ancient story is relevant today.
Written in iambic pentameter verse, Emily Wilson's Odyssey is a lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s “nimble gallop” and brings an ancient epic to new life. The New York Times named Wilson’s translation as one of its 100 notable books of 2018.
