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Emily Wilson

Emily Wilson is Professor of classical studies and Graduate Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. Wilson attended Oxford University (Balliol College, B.A., and Corpus Christi College, M.Phil.) and Yale University (Ph.D.). In 2006, she was named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance and Early Modern scholarship, and in 2019 was named a MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. In addition to The Odyssey, she has published translations of Euripides, Sophocles, and Seneca. Among her other books are Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton; The Death of Socrates: Hero, Villain, Chatterbox, Saint; The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca; and Faithful, a book about translation. Wilson is an editor of The Norton Anthology of World Literature and an advisory editor of the Norton Library.

Emily Wilson

Awards

Shortlisted — American Literary Translators Association National Translation Award, 2018

Commended — New York Times Notable Selection, 2018

Books by Emily Wilson

The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson
Hardback, 2017
A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s "nimble gallop" and brings an ancient epic to new life.
The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson
Paperback, 2018
A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s "nimble gallop" and brings an ancient epic to new life.
The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson
First Edition, Paperback, 2020
“A revelation. Never have I been so aware at once of the beauty of the poetry, the physicality of Homer’s world, and the moral ambiguity of those who inhabit it.” —Susan Chira, The New York Times...
The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson
Paperback, 2020
A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s "nimble gallop" and brings an ancient epic to new life.
Metamorphoses
Ovid, Charles Martin, Emily Wilson
Paperback, 2021
About Charles Martin’s translation.
Oedipus Tyrannos
Sophocles, Emily Wilson, Emily Wilson
First Edition, Paperback, 2021
The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson
E Book, 2017
A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s "nimble gallop" and brings an ancient epic to new life.
The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson
E Book, 2021
About Emily Wilson’s translation
Metamorphoses
Ovid, Charles Martin, Emily Wilson
E Book, 2021
About Charles Martin’s translation
The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson
First Edition, E Book, 2021
“A revelation. Never have I been so aware at once of the beauty of the poetry, the physicality of Homer’s world, and the moral ambiguity of those who inhabit it.” —Susan Chira, The New York Times...