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In her translation of ‘The Odyssey,’ Emily Wilson aimed for ‘a crystalline clarity’

In her translation of ‘The Odyssey,’ Emily Wilson aimed for ‘a crystalline clarity’

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In 2017, Emily Wilson became the first woman to translate Homer’s The Odyssey into English – more than three millennia after the epic’s inception. In the second installment of our Back to School series, Wilson talks with NPR’s Lauren Frayer about how she approached aspects of her translation, including social hierarchies and Homeric epithets.


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