Bee said. “Emily escaped to a world where people were free to express anger.” She was thinking of ancient Greece, but her sister also escaped to an angry new country. Wilson became an American ...

Emily Wilson’s translation of the “Iliad” brings Homer’s great war story to rousing new life. By Natalie Haynes ... The greatest warrior the Greek world has ever known will spend 18 ...

‘Celebrity” and “translator” are not words that occur often in conjunction. But together they aptly describe Emily Wilson, whose new translation of Homer’s epic poem “The Iliad” is ...

You're taking -- you're really living this world. EMILY WILSON: I live it ... award for -- quote -- "bringing classical literature to new audiences in works that convey ancient texts' relevance ...

Emily Wilson Emily Wilson was cast as Athena ... It is not hard to see in Homer’s Greece a startling similarity to our present-day world. Wilson assures us this is embedded in the text, writing ...