"[18], Wilson has noted that being a woman did not predetermine her critical work as a scholar, reader or translator, and has expressed discomfort with the media reception of her work in terms of gender, since it tends to obscure her primary goals (such as the use of regular meter and attention to sound), and risks erasing the work of other female Homerists and female translators. 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. 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. And with formulaic language stripped away, it is the characters and their interactions that take center stage. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 26, 2019. 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. They knew how much was at stake, not only for their status as intellectuals, but for their artistic and literary vision. Of the 60 or so answers to the polytropos question to date, the 36 given above couldnt be less uniform (the two dozen I omit repeat, with minor variations, earlier solutions); what unites them is that their translators largely ignore the ambiguity built into the word theyre translating. Some of the media coverage has made me uncomfortable, because it reflects Anglophone hegemony. She liked French but was in terror of talking in class. Emily Wilsons translation of Homers Odyssey will be published in the autumn by Norton. But now, at long last, we are beginning to see an outpouring of translations of Greek and Latin texts by women. 63)", "The Norton Anthology of Western Literature", "The Norton Anthology of World Literature", "Child, Busby and Sissay join 2020 Booker Prize judging panel", "Emily Wilson's Odyssey translation is short listed for the national translation award", "MacArthur 'Genius' Grant Winners Attest to 'Power of Individual Creativity', "Historically, men translated the Odyssey. 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. How, I asked, would she address such a complaint from someone in her field? 4.74.7 out of 5 stars(732) Audible Audiobook $0.00$0.00$44.49$44.49 Free with Audible trial Available instantly Kindle $15.99$15.99$19.99$19.99 Available instantly Hardcover Other format: Paperback The Odyssey by Homer, Emily Wilson - translator, et al. Antigone was, as Prins reminds us, a massive influence on the work of George Eliot, who read the drama in terms of opposition between individual and society; it is a play about political resistance as much as duty. It took some time and chapters before I finally knew who the main characters were. To listen in full, and to all our Close Readings series, sign up here: lrb.me/closereadings One trap for translators lurks in the poems first line, where its hero is called, untranslatably, polytropos the cunning hero (Lombardo) or the man of twists and turns (Fagles). Emily Wilson. The subtle sewing through of the fittingly wavelike W-words in the first half (wandered wrecked where worked) and the stormy S-words that knit together the second half, marrying the waves to the storm in which this man will suffer, made the terse injunctions to the muse that frame this prologue to the poem (Tell me about and Find the beginning) seem as if they might actually answer the puzzle posed by Homers polytropos and Odysseuss complicated nature. In Robert Fagless much-praised translation of the poem, Telemachus says, before he executes the palace women on his fathers command: No clean death for the likes of them, by god!/Not from me they showered abuse on my head, my mothers too!/You sluts the suitors whores!. For hundreds of years, the study of ancient Greece and Rome was largely the domain of elite white men and their bored sons. As a kid I was just aware of unhappiness, and aware of these things that werent ever being articulated, but the sense that nobody is going to be saying what they feel or encouraging anyone else to say what they feel. Of the existing translations, it seems to me that none get across to a reader without Greek the open question that, in fact, is the opening question of the Odyssey, one embedded in the fifth word in its first line: What sort of man is Odysseus? 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. Regardless of intentions, however, female translators often stand at a critical distance when approaching authors who are not only male, but also deeply embedded in a canon that has for many centuries been imagined as belonging to men. The whole question of What is that story? is going to depend on the language, the words that you use.. Women have long been marginalised in the world of ancient texts, but female scholars and translators are finally having their say, If you look up the subject heading female classicists in the large research library catalogue at the university where I teach, a grand total of five books pop up of which two are separate editions of Its a Dons Life by Mary Beard. Those are the four? I agree with almost everything Bruce Trinque says in his review with one obvious exception, so I'll concentrate on that. The myths of Io and Prometheus were, for these women, symbolic of their own struggle to find mobility within the constraints of translation and Victorian literary norms. Last Name. Both works attributed to Homer - The Iliad and The Odyssey - are over ten thousand lines long in the original. A few translators have tried to fashion an English equivalent; Richmond Lattimore was perhaps the most successful. )critics lauded it as a revelation (Susan Chira. ) On the wall hung pictures of Wilsons three young daughters; the windows behind her framed a gray sky that, as I arrived, was just beginning to dim. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. In Britain, Lady Jane Lumley translated Euripides and, in the 17th century, Lucy Hutchinson produced the first complete translation into English of Lucretius. 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. All English translators of Homer face a basic problem. The Odyssey (trans. [2], Wilson was "shy but accomplished" in school. He himself is still I believe the longest leader of the Conservative Party, and served as Prime Minister for three terms, and helped see through the Reform Act of 1867. Wilson is not persuaded. There was a problem loading your book clubs. One characteristic of Homeric verse is the formulaic epithet: much-suffering Odysseus, lovely-ankled Ino. These arose as byproducts of oral composition pitons, Mendelsohn calls them, stuck into the vast face of the epic to provide a momentary respite for both bard and hearers. . I find this to be a very good translation, into modern English. It could be that hes the turner.. Prins gives a nuanced response to this central question. I have not enjoyed this translation as much, finding aspects of it rather quirky with the use of modern idiom in places and some of the subtleties of the Ancient Greek words and proper names missing . We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Home . She loved the systematization of it, the reams of things to memorize and to get right. But most have preferred iambic pentameter, the default meter for English poets. Next up, alphabetically, is female cleaning personnel, which has a larger number of volumes devoted to it: six, with no duplicates, none by Beard. Iliad remains not only among the greatest adventure stories ever told but also one of the most compelling meditations on the human condition ever written. 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 is Professor in the Department of Classical Studies and Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. [1] In 2006, she was named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance & Early Modern scholarship (Rome Prize). We can never be certain that both these stories belonged to Homer. Emily Wilson Professor of Classical Studies emilyw@sas.upenn.edu Website WILL 721 and ZOOM! But it would give an entirely different perspective and an entirely different setup for the poem. Why was tragedy so important for women of this period? We dont quite know what the layers are yet. Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app. My colleagues told me: You really shouldnt be doing that kind of thing before tenure. I think its very interesting thats still with us. Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them. 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. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. I'm terms of being well-done poetically, I'd recommend Robert Fitzgerald's translation (he also did the Odyssey and the Aeneid).. It's worth mentioning, though, that he's one of the translators Emily Wilson picks out as making some needlessly sexist choices - e.g. Currently at work on a translation of The Iliad, Wilson is animating classical literature for new audiences and revealing connections between the social, political, and ethical issues they explore and those our current era faces. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. The frustrations of the teenage Telemachus come through clearly. 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. One of the things I struggled with, Wilson continued, sounding more exhilarated than frustrated as she began to unpack polytropos, the first description we get of Odysseus, is of course this whole question of whether he is passive the much turning or much turned right? W. W. Norton & Company. We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us. Why would female classicists even want to translate these dead white men? Among the Ancients with Emily Wilson, Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and Thomas Jones, writer and editor at the London Review of Books.Medieval Beginnings with Irina Dumitrescu, Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Bonn, and Mary Wellesley, historian and contributor to the London . In 2014 she published The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca. Perhaps the most famous such expression is in Matthew Arnolds On Translating Homer, his series of lectures in 1860 when he was Oxford professor of poetry. These are not good criteria, Wilson told me. Wilson paused. But Emily Wilson's literal and precise . But Wilson aims for a direct equation: one line of English for one of Greek. Guernica'sBen Purkert interviewed Odyssey translator Emily Wilson! These Wilson shares. 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. We dont share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we dont sell your information to others. Unable to add item to List. 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. A Version of Homer That Dares to Match Him Line for Line, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/05/books/review/odyssey-homer-emily-wilson-translation.html. 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. Rigorous in its readings, Wilsons study is also frequently touching. So were her lovely cheeks dissolved with tears. Late 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 Wilson, a woman of 45 prone to energetic explanations and un-self-conscious laughter, was leading me through a line of Ancient Greek. In addition to Homers. And there are numerous translators who have attempted to translate the Iliad, each with their own advantages and vices. 180 Dr Emily Wilson @EmilyRCWilson You can do it all in writing. Top subscription boxes right to your door, 1996-2023, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon. One might assume optimistically that things have changed. "[8], Wilson is a book reviewer for The Times Literary Supplement,[9] the London Review of Books,[10] and The New Republic. Emily Wilson, the first woman to translate the Odyssey into English, is as concerned with these surrounding characters as she is with Odysseus himself. The poem lying open before us was Homers Odyssey, the second-oldest text, after his earlier poem, the Iliad, in a Western tradition impossible to imagine without them. , ISBN-10 Odysseus, on his way home from the Trojan War, encounters all kinds of marvels from one-eyed giants to witches and beautiful temptresses. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness. Rather, they were slaves, and if women, only barely. It would have been helpful to have notes (as is often the case in such texts). 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So do the breezy complacency of Menelaus, the innocence of Nausicaa, the gruff decency of the swineherd Eumaeus. The words are short, mostly monosyllables. Anne Dacier translated Homers Iliad into French prose in 1699 and his Odyssey nine years later. 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. 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. [17], Beginning, "Tell me about a complicated man", Wilson's metrical verse includes some creative and unusual phrases (such as "journeyways of fish"), although much of her verse translation uses "plain, contemporary language",[18] attending to both Homer's "fleetness" and "rhythm and musicality". Yes, there are boring passages about How Many Boats Are Present but there's also an intensely emotional and gripping (gripping like the narrative makes it impossible not to feel like your heart is being crushed in a vice) climax and conclusion. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 22, 2020. 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. If youre unhappy, all you can do is go to your room and cry silently. Her parents divorced shortly before she went to college. Wilsons unadorned but resonant language plumbs the poems profound pathos and reveals its characters as palpably real, even complicated, human beings. But often such words carry real weight: the suitors sauntered in, for instance, where the verb perfectly captures this crew of dapper sociopaths. Almost none have French or Latin roots. I struggle with this all the time, Wilson said. When Emily Wilsons translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was fresh, unpretentious, and lean (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)critics lauded it as a revelation (Susan Chira, New York Times) and a cultural landmark (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. in literae humaniores, classical literature, and philosophy), she undertook her master's degree in English literature 15001660 at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (1996), and her Ph.D. (2001) in classical and comparative literature at Yale University. Though she has resisted them, the women in her palace have not. This year marks the publication of the first female translation of five of Plutarchs Roman Lives (by Mensch, who has also translated Arrian, Herodotus and five of Plutarchs Greek Lives). I had enjoyed Fitzgerald's verse translation of The Aenied as a result of which I bought this verse translation of the Iliad. Emily Wilson received a BA (1994) and MPhil (1996) from the University of Oxford and a PhD (2001) from . Aristotle said that the Iliad was a poem in which things happened to people, while the Odyssey was a poem of character. Euripides Hippolytus in which Phaedra falls in love with her stepson, who wants to remain asexual was read by John Addington Symonds in male homoerotic terms (since Hippolytus rejects heterosexuality), but the play was reread by his correspondent, a young student and poet named Agnes Robinson, as a way to discover her lesbian desires, through the thwarted, impassioned desire of Phaedra. Often they are long, rolling words: polyphloisboio thalasses, the much-thundering sea, or rhododaktylos eos, rosy-fingered dawn. Wilsons short line preserves some, but others vanish or survive only as adverbs (pensively Penelope sat down). University of Pennsylvania Professor Emily Wilson in the School of Arts and Sciences has received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in the humanities category for her translations of ancient Greek and Roman literature and philosophy. [2] Her sister is the food writer Bee Wilson. It is the Pope translation. But altogether its as good an Odyssey as one could hope for. The Illiad takes place during the last month of the 10 year siege of Troy. Early arguments about translation were over the Old Testament. Email Address * Subject * Message * Thank you! I liked more or less everything about it. CreditGeordie Wood for The New York Times. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Chapman starts things off, in his version, with many a way/Wound with his wisdom; John Ogilby counters with the terser prudent; Thomas Hobbes evades the word, just calling Odysseus the man. Quite a range, and weve barely started. Emily Wilson, in the introduction to her translation writes, . 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. $39.95. [2], Wilson "comes from a long line of academics",[2] including both her parents, A. N. Wilson[3] and Katherine Duncan-Jones,[4] her uncle, and her maternal grandparents, including Elsie Duncan-Jones. THE ODYSSEY By Homer Translated by Emily Wilson 582 pp. Like female scientists (42 volumes, as opposed to 303 for scientists) or male nurses (three to 377), female classicists is a category that has been assumed not to exist. 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. As Wilson spoke, I recalled a little formula by the American critic Guy Davenport about the difference between Homers two poems: The Iliad is a poem about force; the Odyssey is a poem about the triumph of the mind over force. Wilson was parsing the nature of that triumph, embedded in the poems very first adjective, a difference in mind that would make for a difference in Odysseuss nature, both as a warrior and as a husband. But, not heeding her colleagues advice, she began to translate Greek and Roman tragedies. Like, if it doesnt exist in English, it doesnt exist. wanted a Greek copy of the Pentateuch the five books of Moses for the Library of Alexandria. Its very easy to pronounce a French word wrong. But with Latin, Wilson found an instant home. 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. 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. I asked Wilson why translation isnt valued in the academy. Emily Rose Caroline Wilson (born 1971) is a British classicist and the Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. 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. Its not like he ever translated Homer. Thats one of the things it says. Biography. There have also been some marvellous female literary responses to classical literature in recent years not translations, but rather imitations, riffs, remixes or acts of resistance, including Alice Oswalds Memorial, Carsons Nox and Margaret Atwoods The Penelopiad all three of which find in classical literature a precise, devastating way of speaking about loss, grief, guilt and rage. "[2] The work received the Charles Bernheimer Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association in 2003. I am learning it in a whole new way with the Iliad. Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2021. Wilson commented on the challenges of translating Seneca's ornate rhetorical style, saying that Senecan bombast in contemporary English risks sounding "too silly to be impressive. It had such directness, the lines feeling not as if they were being fed into iambic pentameter because of some strategic decision but because the meter was a natural mode for its speaker. [1] In 2017 she became the first woman to publish a translation of Homer 's Odyssey into English. It feels, I told Wilson, with your choice of complicated, that you planted a flag.. This article was amended on 10 July 2017 to give Diane Arnson Svarliens full name. But Wilsons rendering is remarkable in other ways as well. Emily Wilson is the first woman to take on the daunting task of translating over 100,000 lines of a three-millennium-old poem from Ancient Greek to modern-day English. Just the fact of never having a female teacher, but its a difference to how you feel when you dont have any mentors who dont even know what it would be like. Wilson returns to strict iambic pentameter. Her mother, Katherine Duncan-Jones, a Shakespeare specialist, taught English literature at Oxford; her mothers brother, Roman history at Cambridge; her mothers father, a disappointed philosopher disappointed because, though he went to Cambridge, he couldnt get a job there taught at Birmingham; and her mothers mother, Elsie Duncan-Jones, also at Birmingham, was an authority on the poetry of Andrew Marvell. Yopie Prins addresses this question in Ladies Greek: Victorian Translations of Tragedy, her splendid new study of late 19th- and early 20th-century female translators of ancient Greek tragedy. 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. 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