Insight Editions · No. 259
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea
Translating the Odyssey and the Ancient World
Emily Wilson
Emily Wilson on what it means to translate Homer: the choices behind her Odyssey, the politics of rendering slaves, gods and women, and how each age remakes the ancient world in its own words.
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Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Translating the Odyssey and the Ancient World by Emily Wilson, 2025. This is a chapter-by-chapter study of the book, with summaries, maps, tables and diagrams; short quotations keep their page references. It is shared free for personal study, is not for sale, and is not endorsed by the author or publisher. Please read and buy the original.
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