Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature by Wilson, Emily
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature by Wilson, Emily

Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature

In this sharp and often entertaining tour through antiquity, Emily Wilson--whose renditions of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad...
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Author: Emily Wilson
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Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature by Wilson, Emily

Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature

$23.98
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature by Wilson, Emily

Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature

$23.98
Author: Emily Wilson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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In this sharp and often entertaining tour through antiquity, Emily Wilson--whose renditions of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad have captured a generation's imagination--explores the complicated terrain of reading and writing about the ancient past. Drawing on twenty years of scholarship and teaching, Wilson explores the difficult choices that translators must make, the pleasures of finding new solutions to old problems, and the inevitable frustrations of never fully capturing what is in the original work. Across chapters that range from the politics of Helen of Troy to the obscenities of Aristophanes, from Roman imitation of Greek models to contemporary debates over "foreignizing" and "domesticizing" styles, Wilson examines how modern norms of gender, sexuality, violence, humor, and power complicate our readings of ancient works, and how translation always risks denaturing what is unique and strange about the ancient world. Brilliant, erudite, and yet accessible to readers with no classical background, Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea is at once an introduction to the wonders of Greek and Roman literature, a manifesto for the value of translation in a rapidly changing world, and an invitation to encounter ancient cultures anew.



Author: Emily Wilson
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 09/01/2026
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.60w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781324099406


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2026
Publishers Weekly 06/29/2026
Shelf Awareness 01/01/0001
Library Journal 08/01/2026 pg. 80
Booklist 09/01/2026

About the Author
Wilson, Emily: - Emily Wilson is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been named a fellow of the American Academy in Rome, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a MacArthur Fellow. In addition to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, she has also published translations of Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca. She lives in Philadelphia.
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