The Iliad
by Homer, Emily Wilson · first published 2023
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on “Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?” ↗Although I'm very partial to Fitzgerald for the Odyssey and to Lattimore for the Iliad, I'm really looking forward to Wilson's translation.
on “A Translator’s Reckoning with the Women of the Odyssey” ↗I can warmly recommend the new Iliad translation by Caroline Alexander as audiobook. Suberb! I understand the new translation by Emily Wilson (whose Odyssey was excellent) should be good as well. The new translations really bring these…
on “War Music: Homer and His Iliad” ↗…https://www.vox.com/podcasts/2020/4/24/21233353/madeline-mil... Wilson's book is next in my pile! If you're interested in enjoyable translations of Homer, I'd strongly recommend War Music by the British poet Chrisopher Logue. It's The Iliad, but he called it something like "a retelling" rather than "a translation" because it gave him more leeway. Unfortunately he died before he could finish it. Another British poet Alice Oswald wrote an…
on “The Odyssey – Alexander Pope translation (1725)” ↗For anyone who wants a "retelling" of the Iliad rather than a translation, I can't recommend highly enough War Music by the British poet Christopher Logue. It made me fall back in love with the classics. (I also read the Fagles and Wilson translations,…
on “The Odyssey by Homer, Translated by Samuel Butler” ↗Gift link to Emily Wilson's NYT Article "Exit Hector, Again and Again: How Different Translators Reveal the ‘Iliad’ Anew" Worth a read. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/books/review/iliad-transl...
on “The Odyssey by Homer, Translated by Samuel Butler” ↗In Wilson's Odyssey (I haven't seen the new Iliad yet), the notes on translation will transform your understanding of every translation you read, and the notes on xenia (~ hospitality, but much beyond that) will transform your understanding of ancient…
on “Emily Wilson Reimagined Homer” ↗Which translation were you reading? It makes a huge difference. Wilson's Odyssey is really easy to pick up (and I assume her Iliad will be as well), But there are a lot of translations that try to be too literal and end up not working well in English. My wife was a Classics major, so we have something like three translations of…
on “Emily Wilson Reimagined Homer” ↗And meanwhile my wife and I have three Iliad translations on our shelf, which come down regularly as part of everyday conversation. If you last read it as a teenager it would be worth trying again—Emily Wilson's is very accessible!
on “I taught the Iliad to Chinese teenagers (2021)” ↗This is a great run-down and mirrors my experience of reading Fagles, Fitzgerald and Wilson. My favourite though is Christopher Logue's version of the Iliad called War Music - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Music_(poem). It was controversial because he didn't know ancient Greek and based his version on other translations, as well as taking liberties with…
on “Advice on Reading Homer in Translation” ↗…Troy by Stephen Fry. When I finished, I thought it would be nice if he covered the Odyssey, so I looked it up and saw he is releasing an ebook for it in the Spring. In the meantime, I decided to read the Iliad. I wasn’t sure which translation would be good, so I searched online and found that Emily Wilson has a great translation. And now hopefully a reader has benefited from m y suggestion here. Most ads related…
on “The correct amount of ads is zero” ↗And Emily Wilson has a translation of the Iliad releasing in the US later this year - https://www.amazon.com/Iliad-Homer/dp/1324001801
on “The Odyssey by Homer, Translated by Samuel Butler” ↗…Butler's idea in The Authoress of the Odyssey that the Odyssey was written by a woman. I'm looking forward to Wilson's translation. https://www.kenyonreview.org/2013/09/authoress-odyssey/ My favorite Iliad is Lattimore. I've tried others (Fagles, Green, Lombardo) and always come back to Lattimore. I remember when I first read it, my prof said we didn't have to read the Catalog of the Ships. I actually love…
on “The First Woman to Translate the ‘Odyssey’ into English” ↗I've read the Fagles' translation of The Iliad, but the only Odyssey translation I've read is Wilson's. Fagles is my favorite of the two, because he gave me more of what I wanted: high diction and mythic tone. Wilson's translation was great, and…
on “The Odyssey – Alexander Pope translation (1725)” ↗Emily Wilson, whose 2017 English translation of the Odyssey is extremely readable, is now working on translating the Iliad. https://www.capstan.be/british-scholar-emily-wilsons-fresh-a...
on “Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?” ↗