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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