She lives in Philadelphia. Wed 22 Aug 2018 02.29 EDT Last modified on Tue 28 Aug 2018 11.53 EDT. In one noteworthy choice, enslaved characters, described as "dmoiai" or "dmoioi" in the Greek, are often referred to as "slaves" in Wilson's versions, instead of "maids" or "servants"; Wilson has expressed surprise that so many modern North American translations obscure the social structures, noting "how much work seems to go into making slavery invisible. It is the Pope translation. The story revolves around Briseis of Lyrnessus (a princess captured by Achilles) more than it does Helen of Troy. Why would female classicists even want to translate these dead white men? I love that about it., Although Wilson was undecided on a direction after taking her undergraduate degree she had thoughts of doing law she ultimately chose to do further studies in English literature at Oxford while she figured her way forward, rereading some of her favorite books, particularly Miltons Paradise Lost. Emerging with a sense that the writers she appreciated most were in dialogue with antiquity, Wilson pursued a Ph.D. in classics and comparative literature at Yale. Often they are long, rolling words: polyphloisboio thalasses, the much-thundering sea, or rhododaktylos eos, rosy-fingered dawn. Wilsons short line preserves some, but others vanish or survive only as adverbs (pensively Penelope sat down). We are in a bull market, especially in the US, for new translations of classical texts. I had read others, including Richmond Lattimore's much admired translation. 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 . In 2014 she published The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca. Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2021. 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Homers hexameters run from 13 to 18 syllables. Many of these works are the first English versions by women. When Emily Wilsons translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was fresh, unpretentious, and lean (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)critics lauded it as a revelation (Susan Chira, New York Times) and a cultural landmark (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Euripides Bacchae is the subject of Prinns final chapter. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. 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. Last Name. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Definitely worth it. Why was tragedy so important for women of this period? The result is an idiom of great spareness and simplicity: But I am sure that he is not yet dead. But now, at long last, we are beginning to see an outpouring of translations of Greek and Latin texts by women. Yes, there are boring passages about How Many Boats Are Present but there's also an intensely emotional and gripping (gripping like the narrative makes it impossible not to feel like your heart is being crushed in a vice) climax and conclusion. In her reading of the modernist poet HD (Hilda Doolittle), Prins shows brilliantly that the attempt to translate Euripides lyric meters into English enabled her to invent a new kind of free verse in English. A dramatic reading of two early books of the poem, in current in-progress iambic pentameter verse translation, followed by Q and A. Hopscotch Translation Series: Lawrence Venuti in convo w/ Emily Wilson (Philadelphia, PA), Henry Moore Foundation: ORDER Art, Classicism, and Discourse, from 1755 to Today (Leeds, UK), https://complit.sas.upenn.edu/event/professor-emily-wilson-iliad-translation-progress-reading. In The Iliad Homer sang of death and glory, of a few days in the struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans. It would have been helpful to have notes (as is often the case in such texts). Her mothers experience as a female academic, Wilson said, over lunch the next day at a noisy bistro, was tied up with her colleagues in Somerville, the womens college where she taught. Im not a believer, Wilson told me, but I find that there is a sort of religious practice that goes along with translation. Homer must have had an amazing memory but was helped by the formulaic poetry style of the time. At first glance one is reminded of the translation from Odyssey 11 that opens Ezra Pounds Cantos. Pound wanted to evoke Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse (We set up mast and sail on that swart ship / Bore sheep aboard her ). : The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library hosts the Mark Strand Memorial Reading Series and invites accomplished American poets to read their work. She loved the systematization of it, the reams of things to memorize and to get right. The students of Girton and Smith who performed Electra were showing off their intellectual capacity, but at the same time they were defusing any political threat; the choice of play reassured their audiences that classical education for women would reinforce their sense of duty and subjection. I've always greatly preferred the Iliad. In fact 'Homer' may not be a real name but a kind of nickname meaning perhaps 'the hostage' or 'the blind one'. Emily Wilson is the first woman to take on the daunting task of translating over 100,000 lines of a three-millennium-old poem from Ancient Greek to modern-day English. : Like, if it doesnt exist in English, it doesnt exist. 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. To listen in full, and to all our Close Readings series, sign up here: lrb.me/closereadings 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. He is celebrated for his argument tying the creation of the Greek alphabet to the recording of the Homeric Poems, but is also well known for his textbooks on Greek myth and Greek history and his work on the history of writing. It has to go very close to sounding silly, but without quite getting there. In the second-wave feminist scholarship in classics, Wilson told me, people were very keen to try to read Penelope as, Lets find Penelopes voice in the Odyssey, and lets celebrate her, because look, here she is being the hero in an epic in ways we can somehow unpack. I find thats a little simplistic. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. I think about status very differently now as a result. Male classical scholars are represented by the heading classicists which counts more than 200 volumes. 3. But to consult Wilsons 60 some predecessors, living and dead, is to find that consensus has been hard to come by. )critics lauded it as a revelation (Susan Chira. ) Kristin Scott Thomas in Sophocles Electra. We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us. Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2014. Dismal as it has been in other respects, the fall of 2017 has been good to readers of Homer. 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. I find this to be a very good translation, into modern English. Its just the boys club., I do think that gender matters, Wilson said later, and Im not going to not say its something Im grappling with. It is about the broadest of human inheritances: our constant awareness of all that we will lose, are losing, have lost. On the other hand, as Prins says, these plays could be read more than one way. $39.95. 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. Some of the media coverage has made me uncomfortable, because it reflects Anglophone hegemony. We can never be certain that both these stories belonged to Homer. These are not good criteria, Wilson told me. Wilson. Its all going to be talked out. Please try again. But Wilson aims for a direct equation: one line of English for one of Greek. The wide sea keeps him trapped upon some island, captured by fierce men who will not let him go. 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. The context in which contemporary women produce translations of ancient Greek and Latin is very different from that of the Victorian and Edwardian ladies studied by Prins. In 2010, she translated Seneca's tragedies, with an introduction and notes, in Six Tragedies of Seneca. I partly just want to shake them and make them see that all translations are interpretations. Most of the criticism Wilson expects, she says, will come from a digging in of the heels: Thats not what it says in the dictionary, and therefore it cant be right! And if you put down anything other than whats said in the dictionary, then, of course, you have to add a footnote explaining why, which means that pretty much every line has to have a footnote. Emily Wilson, recipient of The MacArthur Fellowship "genius grant" has received attention worldwide as the first woman to publish an English translation of Homer's epic poem, The Odyssey. Id never read an Odyssey that sounded like this. The first of these changes is in the very first line. September brought us Daniel Mendelsohns An Odyssey, his memoir of teaching this poem about fathers and sons to a class at Bard College that included his own father. It took some time and chapters before I finally knew who the main characters were. W. W. Norton & Company. 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. Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app. Guernica'sBen Purkert interviewed Odyssey translator Emily Wilson! Rather, they were slaves, and if women, only barely. Barry B. Powell was born in Sacramento, CA, in 1942. 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. [1] In 2017 she became the first woman to publish a translation of Homer 's Odyssey into English. Written in plain, contemporary language. 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. 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. 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."**. John Giless of many fortunes; T.S. What has that been like? 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." "[18], Wilson has noted that being a woman did not predetermine her critical work as a scholar, reader or translator, and has expressed discomfort with the media reception of her work in terms of gender, since it tends to obscure her primary goals (such as the use of regular meter and attention to sound), and risks erasing the work of other female Homerists and female translators. 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. My name is Zameer Ahmed. She and another female colleague who had a child who was the same age as me organized this day care, first in my house and then it moved to this building near Somerville College.. This is what sweetness and light is. His adventures are many and memorable before he gets back to Ithaca and his faithful wife Penelope. The Odyssey is notable for the range of its female characters, and for the sympathy and respect with which it treats them. Don't waste your money, unless of course that is what you are after. Almost none have French or Latin roots. She made me hear for the first time the veiled menace when the disguised Odysseus answers an insult from one of the nastier suitors: Crafty Odysseus said, How I wish, Eurymachus, that we could have a contest in springtime in the meadow, when the days are growing longer; I would have a scythe of perfect curvature and so would you. The conflict on the battlefield is told as much by its actual events as it is by strife amongst allies and among the gods as well. Wilson is not persuaded. Photo by Kyle Cassidy. Basically, it's the first time I'm reading The Odyssey without dozing off on every other page. Only last year came this new English translation by Emily Wilson, an American academic and allegedly the first woman to translate Homer into English. Poetry News Guernica Talks to Emily Wilson While She Translates The Iliad By Harriet Staff Guernica 's Ben Purkert interviewed Odyssey translator Emily Wilson! Capping a decade of intense engagement with Homers poetry, Wilsons Iliad now gives us a complete Homer for our generation. I must confess, I bogged down about halfway through reading this, one of the iconic works of Western literature. "In the Iliad, an eagle flies past the Trojans, dropping the snake he carried -- & so gets home empty-beaked and wounded. But to the modern English reader who does not know Greek, does a man of many turns suggest the doubleness of the original word a man who is either supremely in control of his life or who has lost control of it? I had a childhood where it was very hard to name feelings, and just the fact that tragedy as a genre is very good at naming feelings. It says it is translated by Fagles but it is not. I had an intense seminar in graduate school on the Odyssey with John Peradotto and at that time, in my early twenties, translating and absorbing an entire book a week was too overwhelming for me. Ruden and Carson are able to reimagine English sentences and English poetry through their tense, difficult encounters with Greek and Roman literature. and a cultural landmark (Charlotte Higgins, ) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Next up, alphabetically, is female cleaning personnel, which has a larger number of volumes devoted to it: six, with no duplicates, none by Beard. Originally Published: February 27th, 2020. As well as The Aeneid, the prolific and versatile Ruden has produced wonderfully original versions of Aeschylus (The Oresteia), as well as Aristophanes, Apuleius, Petronius, Augustine and more. I loved Plutarch, but I didnt love him as deeply as I loved Sophocles, Euripides, Milton. Emily Wilson is the College for Women Class of 1963 Term Professor in the Humanities, professor of Classical Studies, and graduate chair of the Program in Comparative Literature & Literary. They just seem to be coming from such a simple and fundamental misunderstanding., What a translation is doing and what it should do has been a source of vigorous debate since there were texts to translate. In Robert Fagless much-praised translation of the poem, Telemachus says, before he executes the palace women on his fathers command: No clean death for the likes of them, by god!/Not from me they showered abuse on my head, my mothers too!/You sluts the suitors whores!. Close to perfect for the first time reader, Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2013. (review of three separate translations of, This page was last edited on 25 January 2023, at 19:47. Guernica: What impact did the success of your translation have on you? 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. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 24, 2021. In it, she shows how the idea of wild women who dance in nature formed an essential model for female aesthetes, including Harrison and contemporary female choreographers, including Eva Palmer-Sikelianos, who found in Euripides a way to legitimise their own rejection of traditional ways of being a scholar, a dancer, or even an embodied woman. There have also been some marvellous female literary responses to classical literature in recent years not translations, but rather imitations, riffs, remixes or acts of resistance, including Alice Oswalds Memorial, Carsons Nox and Margaret Atwoods The Penelopiad all three of which find in classical literature a precise, devastating way of speaking about loss, grief, guilt and rage. For hundreds of years, the study of ancient Greece and Rome was largely the domain of elite white men and their bored sons. There's a ton of character development and social/interpersonal nuance on every page of the Iliad. Im trying to take this task and this process of responding to this text and creating this text extremely seriously, with whatever I have, linguistically, sonically, emotionally.. The general plainness of the language makes longer or unusual words stand out. 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. Something went wrong. But theres a further wrinkle. [2], Wilson was "shy but accomplished" in school. Professor Emily Wilson, Classical Studies and Comparative Literature, "Iliad Translation In Progress: A reading." A dramatic reading of two early books of the poem, in current in-progress iambic pentameter verse translation, followed by Q and A. Thursday, November 7, 4:30-6:00 p.m. Cohen Hall, room 402 Emily Wilson) Norton (2017) ISBN: 0393089053 Books can be purchased online through the University of Chicago Bookstore. You want to have a sense of anxiety about this character, and that there are going to be layers we see unfolded. Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web. 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. In a cultural context where knowledge of Greek and Latin was an essential marker of elite social status, women needed to demonstrate their capacity to cross this intellectual barrier. 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. Speaker: Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania) Professor of Classical Studies Title: "Iliad 24: A Reading from My Translation" The poem lying open before us was Homers Odyssey, the second-oldest text, after his earlier poem, the Iliad, in a Western tradition impossible to imagine without them. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. You can do it all in writing. The play was staged by 19th-century female students keen to show their intellectual worth. It looks at the way mortality was imagined, in the tragic tradition, by Milton, Shakespeare, Seneca, Sophocles and Euripides. We dont share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we dont sell your information to others. Homer and other bards of the time could recite, or chant, long epic poems. Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them. 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. Anyone can read what you share. If Wilsons version has an English model, it is rather the moving plainness of Matthew Arnolds Sohrab and Rustum: Soon a hum arose, As of a great assembly loosed, and fires Began to twinkle through the fog; for now Both armies moved to camp and took their meal . I want to be saying, after multiple different revisions: This is the best I can get toward the truth., The First Woman to Translate the Odyssey Into English, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/magazine/the-first-woman-to-translate-the-odyssey-into-english.html, A page from a notebook Wilson kept while translating the Odyssey.. A Version of Homer That Dares to Match Him Line for Line, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/05/books/review/odyssey-homer-emily-wilson-translation.html. But no less than that of polytropos, the etymology of complicated is revealing. : I dont know what to say to those people, honestly. Wilson laughed her buoyant laugh. I struggle with this all the time, Wilson said. Why put oneself in this difficult, alienating position? To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we dont use a simple average. Wilson paused. This article was amended on 10 July 2017 to give Diane Arnson Svarliens full name. Sophocles Electra, for example, was staged by women at Girton College, Cambridge in 1883 and at Smith College in Massachusetts in 1889 and played an essential role in their demonstration to the world of their intellectual seriousness. We can only hope that, in the coming years, more British and American women including people who are neither ladies nor white will begin to translate Greek and Roman texts into English. I liked more or less everything about it. For the love of whatever please stop asking, it's legit distressing. Got very confused with son of. Wilson is good too with the poems undertones and double meanings. At 19:47 Homer & # x27 ; t allow us be certain both. 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