The Challenge of Translating 'The Odyssey'

12/07/2018The Challenge of Translating 'The Odyssey'That she is the first woman to translate “The Odyssey” into English holds little import to Emily Wilson, but what does is that she’s the first scholar in 400 years of translations to make the kinds of alterations that reveal the text in a new light.Peter Durantine Wilsons translation was published after she spent five years reading and comparing other translations and studying the ancient Greek language in which Homer wrote his epic.

Wilsons translation was published after she spent five years reading and comparing other translations and studying the ancient Greek language in which Homer wrote his epic.

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