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The Odyssey is a 2017 translation of Homer's Odyssey by classicist Emily Wilson.It was published by W. W. Norton & Company.Wilson, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, retained the line count and blank verse of the original Homeric Greek but changed the meter from dactylic hexameter to iambic pentameter.
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 works of literature still widely read by modern audiences.
Thomas Wilson compared Chapman's Odyssey positively compared to his Iliad. [16] John Keats was very moved by Chapman's Iliad and Odyssey, and especially admired the beauty of one of Chapman's metaphors: "The sea has soakt has heart through". [17] In 1820, Keats borrowed a copy of Chapman's Homer from Benjamin Haydon but it was lost or stolen. [18]
Emily Rose Caroline Wilson (born 1971) is a British American classicist, author, translator, and Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.In 2018, Wilson's translation of Homer's Odyssey became the first by a woman into English verse.
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 ...
In the Odyssey, Homer describes Odysseus' journey home from Troy. Prior to the Trojan War, Odysseus was King of Ithaca, a Greek island known for its isolation and rugged terrain. [1] When he departs from Ithaca to fight for the Greeks in the war, he leaves behind a newborn child, Telemachus, and his wife, Penelope. Although most surviving Greek ...
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Homer and His Guide (1874) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Today, only the Iliad and the Odyssey are associated with the name "Homer". In antiquity, a large number of other works were sometimes attributed to him, including the Homeric Hymns, the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, several epigrams, the Little Iliad, the Nostoi, the Thebaid, the Cypria, the Epigoni, the comic mini-epic ...