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The Story Behind Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’: Illustrated Artworks of The Legendary Tales Related To Gods, Monsters & Odysseus’s Epic Return
For millennia, the epic poems of Homer have profoundly shaped Western literature and thought with their timeless tales of ...
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Homer’s Greek Was Never a Spoken Language, Yet It Lives on in Modern Greek
Homer's language, used in his epic poems, which laid the foundations of Western literature, was never spoken but echoes in ...
Everything We Know About Christopher Nolan's ‘The Odyssey'
As casting announcements continue to roll in, speculation and excitement has only grown surrounding Christopher Nolan’s ...
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The Odyssey’s first woman translator on war, religion and why Homer still matters - America Magazine
In 2018, Emily Wilson, a professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, became the first woman to write a full translation of Homer’s Odyssey in English. For that translation ...
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Modern translation of 'The Iliad' reinforces its relevance - PBS
EMILY WILSON, Translator, "The Iliad": I have an "Odyssey" side of my body and an "Iliad" side of my body. This is the bow of Odysseus. JEFFREY BROWN: Images of the ancient Greek epics on the body ...
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The new ‘Iliad’ translation is a genuine page-turner
But “The Iliad” is not, of course, a poem purely about the clash of men. As Wilson deftly explains in her introduction to the new volume, the epic does not tell the story of the Trojan War.