Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature
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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.
PRODUCT DETAILS :
DIMENSION : 211 mm x 142 mm
WEIGHT : 334 g
PRODUCT SAFETY : US CPSIA or other international hazard warning - No flashing hazard warning necessary
PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Biography, Literature & Literary studies
History & Archaeology
Language & Linguistics
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.
PRODUCT DETAILS :
| ISBN : 9781324099406 | |
| BY (AUTHOR) Wilson, Emily | |
| PUBLISHER : W W Norton & Co Ltd | PUBLICATION DATE : September 01, 2026 |
| COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United States | IMPRINT : Liveright Publishing Corporation |
| LANGUAGE : English | AGE : General |
| PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback | |
WEIGHT : 334 g
PRODUCT SAFETY : US CPSIA or other international hazard warning - No flashing hazard warning necessary
PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Biography, Literature & Literary studies
History & Archaeology
Language & Linguistics