Emily Wilson, author of various books including The Death of Socrates and translator of Six Tragedies of Seneca, discusses the challenges she has encountered in her current project: re-translating Homer. In particular, she focuses on the problem of translating violence and ponders how a modern translator can render into modern English one of the most violent authors of all time.
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Tonight at Barnard
Emily Wilson is lecturing tonight at Barnard - I'm really looking forward to this one:
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
A quick set of bounces
The first installment of Nico Muhly's culture diary for the Paris Review; BLDGBLOG interviews Zachary Mason about The Lost Books of the Odyssey.
(I have a copy of that sitting around somewhere here; I should dig it out and actually read it...)
(I have a copy of that sitting around somewhere here; I should dig it out and actually read it...)
Saturday, November 21, 2009
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