Emily Wilson is Professor of classical studies and Graduate Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. 3. Where Fagles wrote whores and the likes of them and Lattimore the creatures the original Greek, Wilson explained, is just a feminine definite article meaning female ones. To call them whores and creatures reflects, for Wilson, a misogynistic agenda: their translators interpretation of how these females would be defined. The Aeneid, perhaps the most canonical Latin text, was translated into English by a woman (Ruden) for the first time in 2009. It would have been helpful to have notes (as is often the case in such texts). I loved Plutarch, but I didnt love him as deeply as I loved Sophocles, Euripides, Milton. It took some time and chapters before I finally knew who the main characters were. The wide sea keeps him trapped upon some island, captured by fierce men who will not let him go. The Odyssey (trans. But Emily Wilson's literal and precise . The spell of Greek, for Virginia Woolf and many women of her generation, lay in its near-unintelligibility: it was a language that drew attention to the foreign element that is present in any language and thus facilitated a shift away from Victorian poetics. His Odyssey was archaic and fragmentary, an artifact forged by firelight and rusted by time. We dont share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we dont sell your information to others. In the US and the UK, almost all the most prominent translators of Greek and Roman literature have been men, even as recently as 10 or 20 years ago and even as academic departments of classical literature have moved closer to a more balanced gender distribution. What happens to all the unelite women?, In the episode that Wilson calls one of the most horrible and haunting of the whole poem, Odysseus returns home to find that his palace has been overrun by suitors for his wifes hand. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. It was revolutionary, Wilson tells me, with uncomplicated pride, and it was resented: I was the founding member of the Somerville crche. Wilson did write a range of books before tenure, most on canonical texts: her study of suffering and death in literature; a monograph on Socrates. Last Name. Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2022. Graduate Coordinator: Katelyn Stoler 236 Cohen Hall, 249 South 36th Street University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6304 (215) 573-0250 kastoler@upenn.edu The frustrations of the teenage Telemachus come through clearly. I don't know why people are so into the Odyssey as a tale of ~*the human condition*~ and why I so often hear that the Iliad is just a story about a war. Each worked in a separate room to translate in isolation. Alexanders Iliad mirrors the length and redundancies of the original, providing a welcome reminder of how distant Homers world is from our own. Wilson gives us the simile, one of the loveliest in Homer. Because there is no perception that its serious intellectually. You dont have to have beautiful Latin pronunciation. Guernica: What impact did the success of your translation have on you? Wilson knew that if she was being smart, she ought to focus on something understudied, like Plutarch. 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."**. Capping a decade of intense engagement with Homers poetry, Wilsons. , ISBN-10 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. Unable to add item to List. [2], Wilson was "shy but accomplished" in school. 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. Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app. 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. Both projects were outgrowths of her old desire to spend a little bit longer with these authors. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we dont use a simple average. 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. 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. And it is a damned refreshing take on Homer! These Wilson shares. In school, Wilson was shy but accomplished. His adventures are many and memorable before he gets back to Ithaca and his faithful wife Penelope. 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? Odysseus, after slaying the suitors, tells his son, Telemachus, to kill the women. And with formulaic language stripped away, it is the characters and their interactions that take center stage. In 2010, she translated Seneca's tragedies, with an introduction and notes, in Six Tragedies of Seneca. Id never read an Odyssey that sounded like this. Many female classical translators, such as Mensch, seem to find themselves drawn to a foreignising, markedly uncontemporary style, as if to shore up authority in a world where they (we) may still be seen as interlopers and to demonstrate fidelity to the dead male original. 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. 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. Wilson doesnt shy from colloquialisms: fighting solo, pep talk, on day eighteen. And there are some daring choices. Home . The Odyssey is the original collection of tall traveller's tales. and Yale University (Ph.D.). If youre unhappy, all you can do is go to your room and cry silently. Her parents divorced shortly before she went to college. Capping a decade of intense engagement with Homers poetry, Wilsons Iliad now gives us a complete Homer for our generation. I find this to be a very good translation, into modern English. . I had enjoyed Fitzgerald's verse translation of The Aenied as a result of which I bought this verse translation of the Iliad. . Please try again. 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. One might assume optimistically that things have changed. So the question, Wilson continued, of whether hes the turned or the turner: I played around with that a lot in terms of how much should I be explicit about going for one versus the other. So I wanted the reader to be told: be on the lookout for a text thats not going to be interpretively straightforward.. 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 . 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. But Wilsons rendering is remarkable in other ways as well. Wilson is at her best in one of the poem's greatest scenes, the first meeting in Book 19 between Penelope and her unrecognized husband: Her face was melting, like the snow that Zephyr scatters. Prins gives a fascinating account of the importance of Greek tragedy in translation and theatrical production in the colleges of higher education for women that emerged in this period. Treat me, I interrupted, as if I dont know Greek, as, in fact, I do not. Those are the four? Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2014. It took away a whole level of shame., As an undergraduate at Balliol College, Oxford, Wilson studied classics and philosophy. There was a lot of silence, Wilson says. But no less than that of polytropos, the etymology of complicated is revealing. 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. Emily Wilson. Wilson returns to strict iambic pentameter. To read a translation is like looking at a photo of a sculpture: It shows the thing, but not from every angle. I had read others, including Richmond Lattimore's much admired translation. [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. What has that been like? But Wilson, in her introduction, reminds us that these palace women maidservants has often been put forward as a correct translation of the Greek , dmoai, which Wilson calls an entirely misleading and also not at all literal translation, the root of the Greek meaning to overpower, to tame, to subdue werent free. 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. There was an awareness of it being sort of a boys club. At the center of each of Homers epics is a warrior. Bought in good faith. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 26, 2019. If youre going to admit that stories matter, Wilson told me, then it matters how we tell them, and that exists on the level of microscopic word choice, as well as on the level of which story are you going to pick to start off with, and then, what exactly is that story? 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. Or, it could be that hes this untrustworthy kind of guy who is always going to get out of any situation by turning it to his advantage. If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, . This is true of the blockbuster Hollywood imaginings of ancient Greece and Rome such as Troy, 300 and Gladiator all male-directed films in which female characters exist primarily as eye candy. (review of three separate translations of, This page was last edited on 25 January 2023, at 19:47. 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. But then she goes on to give us Penelopes ordinary grief: She cried a long, long time, / then spoke again where cried (not wept) and the repeated long evoke Penelopes sobbing as powerfully as any other words could do. Celebrated for her vivid and lyrical translation of Homer's The Odyssey, Wilson will read from new work currently in progress: translations of Homer's Iliad and Oedipus . It says it is translated by Fagles but it is not. 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 general plainness of the language makes longer or unusual words stand out. , she has also published translations of Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca. Aristotle said that the Iliad was a poem in which things happened to people, while the Odyssey was a poem of character. , Hardcover I think I would enjoy reading this aloud more than silently. I must confess, I bogged down about halfway through reading this, one of the iconic works of Western literature. Greek tragedy was associated with the desire to find space on the page and in life for reason and emotion and to remake English poetic language in a modernist or proto-modernist mode. I read the second half only by means of the Arguments which precede each Book. But Wilson aims for a direct equation: one line of English for one of Greek. Called Septuagint after its 70 translators, this Greek version became a foundational text, both for the early Christian church and for the impossible standard to which all subsequent translations are held: faithfulness. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. I'm posting this review because Amazon keeps emailing me asking how many stars I would give the Iliad and every time I see that email come up I just think "oh my god stop asking me this book ripped my soul to shreds and rendered me void of any spirit for a week PLEASE DON'T REMIND ME." 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. Emily Wilson. Biography. I think about status very differently now as a result. Emily Wilson. Something went wrong. Try again. Anyone can read what you share. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. [19] Following many other Homeric scholars, she has argued that the hierarchical societies depicted in the Homeric poems are not viewed uncritically by the narrator, and that the poems include many voices and many distinct points of view. Why was tragedy so important for women of this period? 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. Prins gives a nuanced response to this central question. The Odyssey Appearances @EmilyRCWilson Scholia About Wilson Contact Me Contact Form. The Catholic Church took 1,200 years to accept Jeromes Latin version (tainted with Judaism, was the charge, as it relied on Hebrew sources). Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 22, 2020. Professor Emily Wilson, Classical Studies and Comparative Literature, "Iliad Translation In Progress: A reading.". Some of the media coverage has made me uncomfortable, because it reflects Anglophone hegemony. But altogether its as good an Odyssey as one could hope for. I dont know what to say to those people, honestly. Wilson laughed her buoyant laugh. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. 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. Definitely worth it. Anne Dacier translated Homers Iliad into French prose in 1699 and his Odyssey nine years later. These are not good criteria, Wilson told me. Complicated: the brilliance of Wilsons choice is, in part, its seeming straightforwardness. W. W. Norton & Company. In them, he offered a takedown of existing translations of Homer and then asked in what faithfulness exists: The translator of Homer should above all be penetrated by a sense of four qualities that he is eminently rapid; that he is eminently plain and direct both in the evolution of his thought and in the expression of it, that is, both in his syntax and in his words; that he is eminently plain and direct in the substance of his thought, that is, in his matter and ideas; and, finally, that he is eminently noble.. Whilst I do not dislike this translation I cannot recommend it as enthusiastically as Fitzgerald's translation of the The Aeneid which I urge anyone who enjoys classical literature to read. Originally Published: February 27th, 2020. Wilson, whose own translation appears this week, has produced the first English rendering of the poem by a woman. I wanted there to be a sense, Wilson told me, that maybe there is something wrong with this guy. For the love of whatever please stop asking, it's legit distressing. The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library hosts the Mark Strand Memorial Reading Series and invites accomplished American poets to read their work. [7] Her next book, The Death of Socrates (2007), examines Socrates' execution. 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. Rather, they were slaves, and if women, only barely. To listen in full, and to all our Close Readings series, sign up here: lrb.me/closereadings Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 23, 2018. Amazing read. I need to have a better answer to them, because they will certainly review it, and they will certainly have a loud voice. But theres a further wrinkle. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who translated Aeschylus Prometheus Bound as a young woman. The main purpose of my work is that I should entertain the people. The first English translation of The Iliad by a woman (Alexander) came out last year. This was . It does not dwell on the causes of the war. We feel sadness on both sides when Odysseus sleeps with the nymph Calypso, not wanting her / though she still wanted him. We feel sympathy for Helen, and even for Odysseus slave women, executed for sleeping with the enemy or as Wilson puts it, the things the suitors made them do with them. (This goes further than the Greek, but not further than is allowable.). I should begin by clarifying that Im the first woman to translate a complete edition ofThe OdysseyintoEnglish; other women have translated the poem into other languages. Like every translator, Wilson brings out some features more clearly than others. Ruden once commented that women are good at translating classics because it puts them in a typically feminine position of abjection, always yearning for an eternally absent male figure: its like developing a relationship with God. And yet I also recognize that a lot of the attention for the book was not unrelated to my being a woman. Now we have an excellent new translation of the epic by the British classicist Emily Wilson. 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. Daciers well-informed, scholarly texts were widely read, not least by Alexander Pope, who used her French to produce his translations of Homer. The list of English classical translations by contemporary women is distinguished and growing every year: it includes Susanna Braunds Lucan; Diane Arnson Svarliens Euripides; Cynthia Damons Tacitus and Julius Caesar; Alicia Stallings Lucretius; Deborah Robertss Prometheus Bound; Janet Lembkes Virgil and Euripides; Laura Gibbss Aesop; and Anne Carsons innovative, stylish versions of Greek tragedies, as well as her Sappho (also now translated by Diane Rayor). The first of these changes is in the very first line. The works of dead, white elite men have largely been translated by living, white elite men. 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. Many of these works are the first English versions by women. In episode one of Among the Ancients, Emily and Tom begin with a beginning, Homer's Iliad: its depictions of anger and grief, of capricious gods and warriors' bodies, and the sheer narrative force of the great epic of the Trojan War.. My name is Zameer Ahmed. Emily Wilson received a BA (1994) and MPhil (1996) from the University of Oxford and a PhD (2001) from . My colleagues told me: You really shouldnt be doing that kind of thing before tenure. Photo by Kyle Cassidy. Its not like he ever translated Homer. I n The Iliad, a poem about the terrible destruction caused by male aggression, the bodies and pretty faces of . Anyone can read what you share. 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. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. 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? 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. 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 . Center of each of Homers epics is a warrior overall star rating and breakdown... Wilson brings out some features more clearly than others translation appears this week, produced! 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