Emily Wilson
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British-American classicist and translator; professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania; her verse Odyssey (2017) was the first English…
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You do not have to fit a pre-existing mould to have a brilliant, successful career. (opens korrents.com)
“This is also great news for Translation, Classics, Poetry, the breaking of generic and disciplinary boundaries, and the fact that you don't have to fit a pre-existing mould to have a brilliant, successful career.”
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What is wrong with Zack Snyder’s 300 is not that it gets Herodotus wrong but that it is a bad film. (opens korrents.com)
“What's wrong with "300" isn't that it gets Herodotus wrong (who cares? Not me). But it's a bad film.”
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Analysing a film or other work of art negatively is not a personal attack. (opens korrents.com)
“But it’s not “personal” to analyze a film or other work of art, even negatively. Criticism is more than “Hurray!” or “Hiss!””
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You do not have to fit a pre-existing mould to have a brilliant, successful career. (opens korrents.com)
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3 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Aeneid (opens rcmnd.app)
“The Aeneid is interesting as a poem deeply engaged with rewriting the Odyssey and re-imagining scenes from it.”
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Paradise Lost (opens rcmnd.app)
“But the Odyssey specifically is interesting to think about in Paradise Lost because it’s both the wrong story and the right story.”
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The Penelopiad (opens rcmnd.app)
“The Penelopiad takes that hint from Homer, asking, ‘What would it be like if we had the whole story not through Odysseus’s perspective, but Penelope’s?”
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The Aeneid (opens rcmnd.app)