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Emily Wilson was born in 1971 in Oxford, England to a family of scholars, [1] and is a professor of classics at the University of Pennsylvania. [2] Wilson completed her undergraduate degree in literae humaniores at the University of Oxford in 1994, a masters degree in English Renaissance literature at Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1996, and a Ph.D. in classical and comparative literature ...
The Odyssey (/ ˈ ɒ d ɪ s i /; [1] Ancient Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, romanized: Odýsseia) [2] [3] is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest surviving works of literature and remains popular with modern audiences. Like the Iliad, the Odyssey is divided into 24 books.
Aphrodite (/ ˌ æ f r ə ˈ d aɪ t iː / ⓘ, AF-rə-DY-tee) [a] is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, procreation, and as her syncretized Roman counterpart Venus, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory. Aphrodite's major symbols include seashells, myrtles, roses, doves
Frontispiece to George Chapman's translation of the Odyssey, the first influential translation in English. Translators and scholars have translated the main works attributed to Homer, the Iliad and Odyssey, from the Homeric Greek into English, since the 16th and 17th centuries. Translations are ordered chronologically by date of first ...
Ancient Manners (Aphrodite: mœurs antique). Paris: Charles Carrington – via Project Gutenberg. This Translation of Ancient Manners was executed on the Printing Presses of Charles Herissey, at Evreux, (France), for Mr. Charles Carrington, Paris, Bookseller et Publisher, and is the only complete English version extant.
The earliest (and fullest) account survives in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, where Aphrodite herself narrates the story to her own lover Anchises. Additionally, the myth is also the subject of one of the very few substantially complete works of Sappho, pieced together from different fragments discovered over a period of more than a hundred ...
Venus Urania (Christian Griepenkerl, 1878) Statue of the so-called 'Aphrodite on a tortoise', 430–420 BCE, Athens [a]Aphrodite Urania (Ancient Greek: Ἀφροδίτη Οὐρανία, romanized: Aphrodítē Ouranía, Latinized as Venus Urania) was an epithet of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, signifying a "heavenly" or "spiritual" aspect descended from the sky-god Ouranos to distinguish her ...
Homer's Odysses [a] is an English translation of Homer's Odyssey by writer George Chapman. It was published around 1614 to 1615. It is widely known as the first complete translation of the poem into the English language. Chapman spent twenty-six years translating works traditionally attributed to Homer.