Event Summary
Lecture by Emily Wilson, University of Pennsylvania, Professor of Classical Studies, Translator of Homer’s Odyssey
What specific challenges face re-translators of ancient, ultra-canonical, Graeco-Roman texts? How are these challenges different or similar to those of other literary translators? Why translate the Odyssey into English yet again, when there have already been almost seventy translations into our language? Prof. Wilson will discuss her working process and goals with this project, from questions of verse form and meter, pacing, style, word choice to narrative perspective, focalization and point of view. She will discuss her vision of this complex, magical, moving and absorbing text about identity, hospitality and the meanings of home.
Location and Address
Room 540 William Pitt Union
3959 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213