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The Iliad Project is a reading of The Iliad, as translated by Robert Fagles, set to be released on June 20. The recording is done by 27 community readers, and even includes the vocal talents of ...
After her translation of Homer’s The Odyssey the classicist Emily Wilson tackles his epic, The Iliad. She brings to life the battle cries between the Greeks and the Trojans, the bellicose ...
The audiobook is set to air via Twitch on June 20. Supergiant Games has been quick to share its support for the project, with Hades creative director Greg Kasavin even providing a forward for the ...
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“The Iliad” begins with the word “mēnin,” or the wrath of gods, which Emily Wilson renders in her new translation as “cataclysmic wrath.” This wrath kindled the Trojan War, caused ...
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Wood writes about how Wilson has translated The Iliad with an eye toward returning to its immediacy and simplicity, sometimes clouded over by the poetic reaches of previous translators. Because of ...
Homer’s "Iliad" made new. A one-man performance brings the ancient tale home for modern men and women. Denis O'Hare in "An Iliad" (Joan Marcus) "Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles," begins ...
The Greek classic’s latest translator Emily Wilson suggests that some of Homer’s lessons are still all too relevant. Reporter Homer‘s The Iliad is currently on Usha Vance’s reading list ...
The classic Greek epic poem The Iliad attributed to Homer regales the listener with tales of the siege of Troy. The World According to Sound podcast reads it as intended — aloud and in ancient ...