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    Emily Wilson

    Emily Wilson is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance and early modern studies, a MacArthur Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow. In addition to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, she has also published translations of Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca. She lives in Philadelphia.

    Emily Wilson

    Emily Wilson is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance and early modern studies, a MacArthur Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow. In addition to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, she has also published translations of Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca. She lives in Philadelphia.

    Awards

    Shortlisted — American Literary Translators Association National Translation Award, 2018

    Commended — New York Times Notable Selection, 2018

    Shortlisted — Runciman Award, 2024

    Books by Emily Wilson

    • Metamorphoses

      Ovid, Charles Martin, Emily Wilson

      International Student Edition, E Book

      About Charles Martin’s translation

    • The Iliad (The Norton Library)

      Homer, Emily Wilson

      First Edition, E Book

    • The Aeneid

      Virgil, Scott McGill, Susannah Wright, Emily Wilson

      Paperback, 2026

      The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately verse in a vivid, contemporary idiom

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