About the Book: Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys through Ancient Literature
Brilliant ... enthralling and profoundly relevant Salman Rushdie
Joyful, illuminating and engaging ... required reading for anyone interested in
translation Madeline Miller
How do we give old words new voices? What must a translator lose-and what might
she gain-when she moves between languages, bringing ancient stories to modern
life?
Emily Wilson has spent a lifetime wrestling with these questions: here, she
invites us to consider the meaning and messages of translators from antiquity to
today-and gives a wholly fresh insight into her own work on Homer.
From shifting depictions of Helen of Troy to Cardi