[2] Her sister is the food writer Bee Wilson. Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2022. Polydamas says, plausibly, this sign means the Trojans should pull back from attacking the Greek wall: casualties will be too high, and gains few." Throughout her translation of the Odyssey, Wilson has made small but, it turns out, radical changes to the way many key scenes of the epic are presented radical in that, in 400 years of versions of the poem, no translator has made the kinds of alterations Wilson has, changes that go to truing a text that, as she says, has through translation accumulated distortions that affect the way even scholars who read Greek discuss the original. Wilsons unadorned but resonant language plumbs the poems profound pathos and reveals its characters as palpably real, even complicated, human beings. As well as The Aeneid, the prolific and versatile Ruden has produced wonderfully original versions of Aeschylus (The Oresteia), as well as Aristophanes, Apuleius, Petronius, Augustine and more. Emily Wilson, recipient of The MacArthur Fellowship "genius grant" has received attention worldwide as the first woman to publish an English translation of Homer's epic poem, The Odyssey. What has that been like? The fact that its possible to translate the same lines a hundred different times and all of them are defensible in entirely different ways? And it is a damned refreshing take on Homer! (In fact, a handful of women are buried among the classicists; one can find here several studies of Victorian classical scholar Jane Harrison, including a fine one by Beard.). Although the war is begun over a woman, Helen, stolen from her Greek husband by a Trojan, the Iliad is a poem about and presided over by men. "We discussed toxic masculinity, pseudo feminism, and which pronouns are most appropriate for Homer," says Purkert. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of the first great Homeric epic: the, In Wilsons hands, this exciting and often horrifying work now gallops at a pace befitting its best battle scenes, roaring with the clamor of arms, the bellowing boasts of victors, and the anguished cries of dying men. Photo by Kyle Cassidy. The Odyssey is notable for the range of its female characters, and for the sympathy and respect with which it treats them. There is now a far larger textbook market for classical translations to be read in university courses, which imposes its own constraints on the translator. , ISBN-13 I never had a female mentor in classics. Still, the appeal of classics as a discipline was profound, particularly the way that Greek drama presented great emotional tumult. Got very confused with son of. Wed 22 Aug 2018 02.29 EDT Last modified on Tue 28 Aug 2018 11.53 EDT. Please try again. Emily Wilson is Professor of classical studies and Graduate Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. But Hutchinsons work exists only in manuscript; like that of most British female classical translators before this generation, her work was largely unknown beyond her own immediate circle. Professor Emily Wilson will deliver the 2020 Mark Strand Memorial Reading online on Wednesday, October 7, at 4pm (a zoom link will be posted and circulated in October). Emily Wilsons translation of Homers Odyssey will be published in the autumn by Norton. Wilson is good too with the poems undertones and double meanings. I've always greatly preferred the Iliad. The Odyssey (trans. So I wanted the reader to be told: be on the lookout for a text thats not going to be interpretively straightforward.. I think I would enjoy reading this aloud more than silently. The reader doesnt even see Odysseus until the fifth of the poems 24 books, where we learn that he has been living on an island with Calypso, a goddess, for seven years; that, earlier, he was detained by another goddess, Circe, with whom he also shared a bed; that the Sirens, as he navigates, call to him, desiring him; that a young princess falls in love with him; that, on all sides, women are temptresses, and whereas he submits, we are to understand that Penelope, alone, assailed, remains faithful. Arnold wrote a famous essay, On Translating Homer. Though he never produced a translation himself, I think he would have recognized his Homer a poet eminently rapid, eminently plain and direct in Wilsons. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we dont use a simple average. CreditGeordie Wood for The New York Times. The play was staged by 19th-century female students keen to show their intellectual worth. Her complex answer is tied up with the history of womens education. Guernica: What impact did the success of your translation have on you? On Wednesday, translator Emily Wilson GRD '01 delivered the 2020 edition of the Mark Strand Memorial Reading, where she read from her in-progress translations of Homer's "Iliad" and Sophocles' "Oedipus Tyrannus" on a Zoom webinar.. In Britain, Lady Jane Lumley translated Euripides and, in the 17th century, Lucy Hutchinson produced the first complete translation into English of Lucretius. now gives us a complete Homer for our generation. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 24, 2021. They knew that an encounter with this alien language and culture could help them move, feel, think and write differently. Chapman and Pope did the poems into rhyming couplets. Very affordable. 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And even though I think translation is a way of being innovative within your field, my colleagues dont see it that way., One way of talking about Wilsons translation of the Odyssey is to say that it makes a sustained campaign against that species of scholarly shortsightedness: finding equivalents in English that allow the terms she is choosing to do the same work as the original words, even if the English words are not, according to a Greek lexicon, correct., What gets us to complicated, Wilson said, returning to her translation of polytropos, is both that I think it has some hint of the original ambivalence and ambiguity, such that its both Why is he complicated? What experiences have formed him? which is a very modern kind of question and hints at There might be a problem with him. I wanted to make it a markedly modern term in a way that much turning obviously doesnt feel modern or like English. 3. There was an awareness of it being sort of a boys club. There are a number of reasons for this dispiriting fact. It feels, I told Wilson, with your choice of complicated, that you planted a flag.. I think he had a good classics major undergraduate kind of Greek, but I think its all to do with a particular notion of aesthetics and class, the whole plainness and nobility. Its about noblesse oblige and youre going to be the kind of gentleman whos going to have gone to Rugby and that will be the kind of language that we speak: the classy kind of language. The words are short, mostly monosyllables. Perhaps then more of us will begin to shed the Promethean chains of translationese to show a new generation of readers what these texts, translated by classicists who are also women, can sound like and how this alien, alienated encounter can help reshape our own language. Since the Odyssey first appeared in English, around 1615, in George Chapmans translation, the story of the Greek warrior-king Odysseuss ill-fated 10-year attempt to return home from the war in Troy to Ithaca and his wife, Penelope, has prompted some 60 English translations, at an accelerating pace, half of them in the last 100 years and a dozen in the last two decades. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Although you can understand, if not condone, how murderous rage at a translator might arise if a believer supposed a sacred text to have been desecrated by a translators hand, it is somewhat surprising that similar vehemence can greet translations of secular canonical texts. In a cultural context where knowledge of Greek and Latin was an essential marker of elite social status, women needed to demonstrate their capacity to cross this intellectual barrier. Which, of course, is absurd and rather pseudo-feminist. A dramatic reading of two early books of the poem, in current in-progress iambic pentameter verse translation, followed by Q and A. Hopscotch Translation Series: Lawrence Venuti in convo w/ Emily Wilson (Philadelphia, PA), Henry Moore Foundation: ORDER Art, Classicism, and Discourse, from 1755 to Today (Leeds, UK), https://complit.sas.upenn.edu/event/professor-emily-wilson-iliad-translation-progress-reading. But altogether its as good an Odyssey as one could hope for. I am learning it in a whole new way with the Iliad. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. You can do it all in writing. From their conversation: Guernica: [The] Timesreferred to you as the first woman to translateThe Odyssey, and I know many other outlets have really focused on this too. When the Trojans learn Achilles is not participating in the siege they counterattack. In her reading of the modernist poet HD (Hilda Doolittle), Prins shows brilliantly that the attempt to translate Euripides lyric meters into English enabled her to invent a new kind of free verse in English. Her mothers experience as a female academic, Wilson said, over lunch the next day at a noisy bistro, was tied up with her colleagues in Somerville, the womens college where she taught. The frustrations of the teenage Telemachus come through clearly. I partly just want to shake them and make them see that all translations are interpretations. Most of the criticism Wilson expects, she says, will come from a digging in of the heels: Thats not what it says in the dictionary, and therefore it cant be right! And if you put down anything other than whats said in the dictionary, then, of course, you have to add a footnote explaining why, which means that pretty much every line has to have a footnote. His adventures are many and memorable before he gets back to Ithaca and his faithful wife Penelope. Learn more. If youre unhappy, all you can do is go to your room and cry silently. Her parents divorced shortly before she went to college. [12][13], In January 2020, Wilson joined the Booker Prize judging panel, alongside Margaret Busby (chair), Lee Child, Sameer Rahim and Lemn Sissay. Professor Emily Wilson, Classical Studies and Comparative Literature, "Iliad Translation In Progress: A reading.". Here is how Wilson renders their undoing: If I was really going to be radical, Wilson told me, returning to the very first line of the poem, I wouldve said, polytropos means straying, and andra man, the poems first word means husband, because in fact andra does also mean husband, and I couldve said, Tell me about a straying husband. And thats a viable translation. I loved Plutarch, but I didnt love him as deeply as I loved Sophocles, Euripides, Milton. Lawrences various-minded; William Henry Denham Rouses never at a loss; Richmond Lattimores of many ways; Robert Fitzgeralds skilled in all ways of contending; Albert Cooks of many turns; Walter Shewrings of wide-ranging spirit; Allen Mandelbaums of many wiles; Robert Fagless of twists and turns; all the way to Stanley Lombardos cunning.. Because there is no perception that its serious intellectually. and a cultural landmark (Charlotte Higgins, ) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. That tells you something. But, Wilson added, with the firmness of someone making hard choices she believes in: I want to be super responsible about my relationship to the Greek text. In one noteworthy choice, enslaved characters, described as "dmoiai" or "dmoioi" in the Greek, are often referred to as "slaves" in Wilson's versions, instead of "maids" or "servants"; Wilson has expressed surprise that so many modern North American translations obscure the social structures, noting "how much work seems to go into making slavery invisible. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 22, 2020. Though her education there, she says, offered her a strong introduction to literary study, it wasnt lost on her that none of her professors were women. And with formulaic language stripped away, it is the characters and their interactions that take center stage. The media wouldnt have cared otherwise. That there could still be big questions about a nearly-three-millenniums-old poem that most everyone has heard of it has exerted an influence on writers, from Virgil to Milton to Joyce has everything to do with how Wilson is seeking to redefine the job of modern literary scholarship, an ambition that seems, in part, an inheritance. These changes seem, at each turn, to ask us to appreciate the gravity of the events that are unfolding, the human cost of differences of mind. The most highly praised male classicist translators of our era such as Robert Fagles write with a confident exuberance, often expanding or adding to the original. Some trade-offs are inevitable. The first, Mocked With Death (2005), grew out of her dissertation and examines mortality in the tragic tradition: "our constant awareness of all that we will lose, are losing, have lost. Anyone can read what you share. Predictably, there are no entries for male classicists. We are in a bull market, especially in the US, for new translations of classical texts. I had enjoyed Fitzgerald's verse translation of The Aenied as a result of which I bought this verse translation of the Iliad. Wilson attended Oxford University (Balliol College, B.A., and Corpus Christi College, M.Phil.) Not all female-translated texts are marketed as such; the Amazon listing of Menschs The Age of Caesar lists Plutarch and James Romm (the classicist who wrote the footnotes) as the primary authors. L ate in August, as a shadow 70 miles wide was traveling across the United States, turning day briefly to night and millions of Americans into watchers of the skies, the British classicist Emily. Capping a decade of intense engagement with Homers poetry, Wilsons. But to the modern English reader who does not know Greek, does a man of many turns suggest the doubleness of the original word a man who is either supremely in control of his life or who has lost control of it? This was . Rigorous in its readings, Wilsons study is also frequently touching. Emily Wilson. , Hardcover Wilson is at her best in one of the poems greatest scenes, the first meeting in Book 19 between Penelope and her unrecognized husband: Her face was melting, like the snow that Zephyr scatters across the mountain peaks; then Eurus thaws it, and as it melts, the rivers swell and flow again. Emily Wilson. So were her lovely cheeks dissolved with tears. Written in plain, contemporary language. Professor Emily Wilson, Classical Studies and Comparative Literature, "Iliad Translation In Progress: A reading." A dramatic reading of two early books of the poem, in current in-progress iambic pentameter verse translation, followed by Q and A. Thursday, November 7, 4:30-6:00 p.m. Cohen Hall, room 402 It took some time and chapters before I finally knew who the main characters were. Female classical translators have tended to approach the original more gingerly, with more careful discipline. Poetry News Guernica Talks to Emily Wilson While She Translates The Iliad By Harriet Staff Guernica 's Ben Purkert interviewed Odyssey translator Emily Wilson! Euripides Bacchae is the subject of Prinns final chapter. I had a childhood where it was very hard to name feelings, and just the fact that tragedy as a genre is very good at naming feelings. That youre going to be communicating with the masses, which is less important than being innovative within your field. Many of the most dedicated (such as Pamela Mensch, Sarah Ruden, Caroline Alexander and Josephine Balmer) have no institutional affiliation and are thus free from the pressure to produce work that counts for tenure. I find this to be a very good translation, into modern English. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations. We can never be certain that both these stories belonged to Homer. Not all female translators would describe themselves as feminists and many female classical translators, like almost all their male counterparts, do not see gender as a central element in their work. It looks at the way mortality was imagined, in the tragic tradition, by Milton, Shakespeare, Seneca, Sophocles and Euripides. She and another female colleague who had a child who was the same age as me organized this day care, first in my house and then it moved to this building near Somerville College.. I think about status very differently now as a result. Only last year came this new English translation by Emily Wilson, an American academic and allegedly the first woman to translate Homer into English. Department Colloquium: Emily Wilson (Penn) "Iliad 24: A Reading from My Translation" Thursday, November 4, 2021 - 4:45pm to 6:15pm 402 Cohen Hall and also on Zoom, registration below. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. The whole question of What is that story? is going to depend on the language, the words that you use.. Im not a believer, Wilson told me, but I find that there is a sort of religious practice that goes along with translation. Id never read an Odyssey that sounded like this. I liked more or less everything about it. In the Iliad, it is Achilles, the greatest of the Greeks, a demigod almost invulnerable to death. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. We dont share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we dont sell your information to others. So do the breezy complacency of Menelaus, the innocence of Nausicaa, the gruff decency of the swineherd Eumaeus. I love that about it., Although Wilson was undecided on a direction after taking her undergraduate degree she had thoughts of doing law she ultimately chose to do further studies in English literature at Oxford while she figured her way forward, rereading some of her favorite books, particularly Miltons Paradise Lost. Emerging with a sense that the writers she appreciated most were in dialogue with antiquity, Wilson pursued a Ph.D. in classics and comparative literature at Yale. I must confess, I bogged down about halfway through reading this, one of the iconic works of Western literature. Emily Wilson is a professor in the Department of Classical Studies and chair of the program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. Emily Rose Caroline Wilson (born 1971) is a British classicist and the Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. 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The Odyssey Appearances @EmilyRCWilson Scholia About Wilson Contact Me Contact Form. The Iliad: A New Translation by Caroline Alexander by Homer, Dominic Keating, et al. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. It could be that hes the turner.. Lovelace Bigge-Withers many-sided-man; George Edgingtons deep; William Cullen Bryants sagacious; Roscoe Mongans skilled in expedients; Samuel Henry Butcher and Andrew Langs so ready at need; Arthur Ways of craft-renown; George Palmers adventurous; William Morriss shifty; Samuel Butlers ingenious; Henry Cotterills so wary and wise; Augustus Murrays of many devices; Francis Caulfeilds restless; Robert Hillers clever; Herbert Batess of many changes; T.E. In The Iliad Homer sang of death and glory, of a few days in the struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans. Publisher Speaker: Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania) Professor of Classical Studies Title: "Iliad 24: A Reading from My Translation" You have all this information, and you can regurgitate, in the sense that you can strategize to translate an English sentence or a Latin sentence. The translation was, literally, faithful: God himself had moved their hands in unison, only one possible translation for his Word. For hundreds of years, the study of ancient Greece and Rome was largely the domain of elite white men and their bored sons. In compensation we get moments of surprising lyricism: the Ethiopians, who live between the sunset and the dawn; a sea gull wetting its whirring wings; seals whose breath smells sour / from gray seawater. Wilson has a fine ear, as when her Penelope waves away a compliment: The deathless gods destroyed my looks that day / the Greeks embarked for Troy. Notice the interplay of d, l and g, interwoven like the threads on the queens loom. It took away a whole level of shame., As an undergraduate at Balliol College, Oxford, Wilson studied classics and philosophy. Some of these plays Antigone and the Sophoclean Electra in particular could be moulded to fit repressive contemporary ideals of womanhood, since their heroines demonstrate selfless devotion to dead male family members. Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web. But there is something inspiring about looking back to the female classical translators of a century ago, because they took the process of translating Greek so seriously. The prefix poly, Wilson said, laughing, means many or multiple. Tropos means turn. Many or multiple could suggest that hes much turned, as if he is the one who has been put in the situation of having been to Troy, and back, and all around, gods and goddesses and monsters turning him off the straight course that, ideally, hed like to be on. The reviewer actually says this about Emily Wilson's translation: " And genius is certainly one of the first words that comes to mind when reading Emily Wilson's clean-lined, compulsively readable translation of the Odyssey **, one of the most interesting versions of the epic ever produced in English."**. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Achilles is forced to give Briseis to Agamemnon which leads to Achilles sulking in his tent and refusing to fight. Zeus is the poems prevailing god, and what men do, or are willing to do, in love and war and in the friendships that arise in war and its losses, are the poems preoccupations. But it would give an entirely different perspective and an entirely different setup for the poem. And projecting all of that back on to the classics. Maria Dahvana Headley is a #1 New York Times -bestselling author of . (review of three separate translations of, This page was last edited on 25 January 2023, at 19:47. Those are the four? . THE ODYSSEY By Homer Translated by Emily Wilson 582 pp. It has to go very close to sounding silly, but without quite getting there. I think he was a terrible reader of poetry. Their successors favored blank verse. September brought us Daniel Mendelsohns An Odyssey, his memoir of teaching this poem about fathers and sons to a class at Bard College that included his own father. Menschs colourless prose is not noticeably more conscious or critical of the gender identities of Plutarchs violent elite Roman men than that of other contemporary translators (such as Robin Waterfield, whose fine Oxford Worlds Classics translation came out in 1999). The older colleagues were mostly childless women and had this whole sort of anger anger and also refusal to understand that there might be extra demands on my moms time, because she had children. Wilsons mother and another colleague took matters into their own hands. So it would be GREAT if you can mention the name of the translator in the product description. Homer and other bards of the time could recite, or chant, long epic poems. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness. In it, she shows how the idea of wild women who dance in nature formed an essential model for female aesthetes, including Harrison and contemporary female choreographers, including Eva Palmer-Sikelianos, who found in Euripides a way to legitimise their own rejection of traditional ways of being a scholar, a dancer, or even an embodied woman. Emily Wilson) Norton (2017) ISBN: 0393089053 Books can be purchased online through the University of Chicago Bookstore. But even for atheists, lesbians or women who just dont feel that way about Virgil or Homer, the position of being a woman translating one of these dead, white men creates a strange and potentially productive sense of intimate alienation. The first English Bibles translator, John Wycliffe, was disinterred and his bones were burned for the heresy of translating into English, and his successor, William Tyndale, was excommunicated, sentenced to death by strangulation and burned at the stake. Definitely worth it. Today, Wilson is working on several different projects, including a translation of Homer's Iliad and a book about translation itself, titled Faithful.Although she has already finished several books of the Iliad, it has been a unique project."The whole mood of the poem is totally different from the mood of The Odyssey," Wilson explains, "It took quite some time to get my head around how . When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Here is how Wilsons Odyssey begins. Problem with him shortly before she went to College ( review of three separate of... Is forced to give each month classical translators have tended to approach original... 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