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3,000 years of The Iliad

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The First Woman Translator of the Odyssey

In this chapter, the host interviews Emily Wilson, the first woman to publish an English translation of the Odyssey. They discuss her motivations behind translating ancient texts, the representations of gender in the Homeric poems, and the weight of expectations when translating the Iliad after the success of the Odyssey.

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