Emily Wilson — Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature - with Claire Catenaccio

About this episode

From the most celebrated translator of our time comes a visionary exploration of how translation reshapes and enriches our understanding of the ancient world. Drawing on twenty years of scholarship and translation experience, Emily Wilson—renowned translator of Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad —explores the difficult choices that translators must make, the pleasures of finding new solutions to old problems, and the inevitable frustrations of never fully capturing what is in the original work. Across chapters that range from the politics of Helen of Troy to the obscenities of Aristophanes, from Roman imitation of Greek models to contemporary debates over “foreignizing” and “domesticizing”…