Emily Wilson (classicist)

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Emily Wilson (born 1971) is a British and American classicist and translator. Trained at Oxford University and Yale University, she is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her verse translation of Homer's Odyssey, published in 2017, is the first by a woman into English. Her translation of the Iliad was published in 2023. Wilson is the author of several books, including Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton (2004), The Death of Socrates: Hero, Villain, Chatterbox, Saint (2007) and The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca (2014).

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