2019 Hoffman Lecture - Translating the Odyssey Again: How and Why

2019 Hoffman Lecture - Translating the Odyssey Again: How and Why Given by Emily Wilson, Professor of Classical Studies and Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. Why translate the Odyssey into English yet again, when there have already been almost seventy translations into our language? Prof. Wilson will discuss her working process and goals with this project, from questions of verse form and meter, pacing, style, word choice to narrative pe