the odyssey emily wilson ebook

Emily Wilson’s most popular book is The Odyssey. Its characters are unforgettable, none more so than the “complicated” hero himself, a man of many disguises, many tricks, and many moods, who emerges in this version as a more fully rounded human being than ever before. Emily Wilson is professor of classical studies and graduate chair of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. Homer in an Honest Poetic Voice For the First Time in English ! Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Something went wrong. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 28, 2019. ebook preview. Homer’s 8th century BCE oral narrative of a warrior’s decades-long quest to return home defines epic poetry.Together with its companion poem The Iliad, The Odyssey describes the action and aftermath of the Trojan Wars, and is the model for the heroic quest. The Odyssey: Amazon.co.uk: Homer Homer, Emily Wilson: 9780393089059: Books In the Odyssey, Hermes, the boundary-crosser, the musician, the merchant, the trickster and the traveler, the god surely of seabirds, becomes a seabird himself. Also a long and detailed description of the characters and its historical background. Wilson’s Odyssey captures the beauty and enchantment of this ancient poem as well as the suspense and drama of its narrative. reply | flag * message 2: by Michael (last edited Apr 02, 2018 04:05AM) (new) - rated it 5 stars And now, there is this; this stunning accomplishment. This is my first time reading The Odyssey and I really enjoyed the book. and Yale University (Ph.D.). The introduction is brilliant too, explaining some of the weirder moments and putting some context to the story. An succinct discussion of the debate can be found in: Peter Jones, Homer’s Odyssey: A Companion to the English Translation of Richard Lattimore, Bristol Classical Press 1988, pp. From my point of view, it was readable and an excellent translation which allows the reader to get in lto the spirit of Homer's poem. ... Emily Wilson's Odyssey sings with a voice that echoes Homer's music; matching the number of lines in the Greek original, the poem sails along at Homer's swift, smooth pace. Wilson is an editor of The Norton Anthology of World Literature and an advisory editor of the Norton Library. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. This review will have to do. Prime Cart. Nov 29, 2018 - Buy The Odyssey 1 by Homer Homer, Emily Wilson (ISBN: 9780393089059) from Amazon's Book Store. © 2008-2021, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, Ancient, Classical & Medieval Poetry (Kindle Store), includes free international wireless delivery via. 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. This fresh, authoritative translation captures the beauty of this ancient poem as well as the drama of its narrative. Emily Wilson’s riveting translation of The Odyssey ripples with excitement and new meaning. Emily Wilson’s riveting translation of The Odyssey ripples with excitement and new meaning. Detail is sometimes sacrificed, in spots, to the detriment of coherence and of fidelity to the beauty of Homer's rhetorical turns. My favourite read of 2018. Emily Wilson is the first woman to take on the daunting task of translating over 100,000 lines of a three-millennium-old poem from Ancient Greek to modern-day English. In addition to The Odyssey, she has published translations of Euripides, Sophocles, and Seneca.

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