September 17, 2026
Crossing the Wine – Dark Sea Journeys Through Ancient Literature
Crossing the WinDark Sea Journeys Through Ancient Literature | 1.74 MB
Title: Crossing the WinDark Sea Journeys Through Ancient Literature
Author: Emily Wilson
Category: Translating & Interpreting, Poetry History & Criticism, Ancient History, Ancient & Classical
Language: English | 285 Pages | ISBN: 9781324099413
Description:
"An enthralling and profoundly relevant book." -Salman Rushdie
"I adored reading these joyful, illuminating, and engrossing journeys through ancient literature." -Madeline Miller
From the most celebrated translator of our time comes a visionary exploration of how translation reshapes and enriches our understanding of the ancient world.
In this sharp and often entertaining tour through antiquity, Emily Wilson-whose renditions of Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad have captured a generation’s imagination-explores the complicated terrain of reading and writing about the ancient past. Drawing on twenty years of scholarship and teaching, Wilson explores the difficult choices that translators must make, the pleasures of finding new solutions to old problems, and the inevitable frustrations of never fully capturing what is in the original work. Across chapters that range from the politics of Helen…
"An enthralling and profoundly relevant book." -Salman Rushdie
"I adored reading these joyful, illuminating, and engrossing journeys through ancient literature." -Madeline Miller
From the most celebrated translator of our time comes a visionary exploration of how translation reshapes and enriches our understanding of the ancient world.
In this sharp and often entertaining tour through antiquity, Emily Wilson-whose renditions of Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad have captured a generation’s imagination-explores the complicated terrain of reading and writing about the ancient past. Drawing on twenty years of scholarship and teaching, Wilson explores the difficult choices that translators must make, the pleasures of finding new solutions to old problems, and the inevitable frustrations of never fully capturing what is in the original work. Across chapters that range from the politics of Helen…
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