Emily Wilson, professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, poses for a photo in Philadelphia on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
\n\nThis cover image released by Liveright shows “Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature” by Emily Wilson. (Liveright via AP)
\n\nNEW YORK (AP) — If you’re among the many readers who learned to love “The Odyssey” through Emily Wilson’s 2017 translation, you might be surprised that she’s going to translate it again.
\n\n“It’s a complete retranslation. It’s not a revision of the old version,” Wilson told The Associated Press during a recent Zoom interview from her home in Philadelphia, where she is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. “I’m about halfway through.”
\n\nRegarded as the first major English-language translation of Homer’s epic by a woman, her book was already a bestseller and a culture-wars flashpoint before the release of Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster adaptation. But she says her translation methods have become more sophisticated and that enough time has passed for her to see some flaws in her work — as an example, she overused the word “slave” when ancient Greek had different terms for different categories of enslaved people. The…
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