Re-translating Homer: Why and How

Emily Wilson

Professor of Classical Studies University of Pennsylvania

Thursday, April 25

5:15 p.m.

101 Debartolo Hall

"Retranslating the Iliad"

Professor of Classical Studies (University of Pennsylania), Emily Wilson will outline her priorities and approach to retranslating the Iliad. She will discuss how translating ancient literature is different from translating contemporary literature, and the specific challenges of translating ancient metrical verse. She will also contextualize her translation within contemporary scholarly and popular receptions of Homer and compare her translation to others. Finally, she will also discuss how Homeric translation is different from translating other ancient poets.

Thursday, April 11, 2024 at 5:30pm to 7:00pm

Stern Center Lecture

March 27

5:15 - 6:15pm EDT

Room 50, Gilman Hall

Homewood Campus

3400 North Charles Street

Baltimore , Maryland 21218

Registration is required

This event is free

“Re-Translating Homer: Why it Matters” will take place in Alumni Hall at the University of King’s College on March 6, 2024.

About the Alex Fountain Memorial Lecture

Fred and Elizabeth Fountain and their daughter Katharine established the Alex Fountain Memorial Lecture in 2011 to honour Alex, who died in August 2009. This exceptional gift to the college enables the King’s student body to invite a speaker of their choosing to the university each year. Previous lecturers include author Michael Ondaatje, Governor General Michaëlle Jean, Cree artist Kent Monkman and experimental vocalist, artist and author Tanya Tagaq.

The lecture is free and open to the public, but please note that King’s students will receive priority seating and space is not guaranteed to the general public.

Thursday 25 January 2024

7-8pm GMT via Zoom

Acclaimed translator Professor Emily Wilson in conversation with Classics for All's The Chorus.

The Chorus – Classics for All’s network for young classicists – is pleased to announce its upcoming event with the esteemed classical translator, Professor Emily Wilson. Join us for a captivating discussion on the art of classical translation and its significance in the realm of epic literature.

This event is for students and young classicists aged 16 and over. To attend this event, students must sign up to become a member of The Chorus. A link to access the session will be emailed to members before the event.  

Thalia Potamianos Annual Lecture Series

Lecture II: Destiny, Tradition, Choice

Wednesday, January 24, 2024 – GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (Washington, DC)
6:00 p.m. EST (US)
Gaston Hall, located inside the Healy Hall Building, 37th & O Streets, NW

Join Emily Wilson (lauded translator and co-editor of The Norton Anthology of World Literature) for a lively conversation on the power of translation. In this webinar, Wilson will discuss her approach to translation, how it differs from others, and will read an excerpt from her recently-published translation of The Iliad. This event is free and open to all interested, and we will have time for an audience Q&A. All registrants will receive a recording of this event.

Wednesday, December 6

Signing and Discussion with Emily Wilson

Barnes & Noble

1708 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19103

The People’s Tongue with Emily Wilson Online Event

Monday, December 04, 2023 | 6:30 p.m.

With Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College

An Iliad for the 21st Century: A Discussion with Prof. Emily Wilson in NYC

Join HALC and Theodore's Books for an all encompassing discussion with Professor Emily Wilson, a renowned classicist, author, and the translator. Following her groundbreaking translation of The Odyssey, which quickly achieved canonical status, Wilson took on translating The Iliad. We dig into her latest translation of The Iliad, which has been described as a "triumph", looking at how this timeless piece and the Classics continue to capture the imaginations of people across the world.

Emily Wilson, University of Pennsylvania, will speak on her new translation of Homer's The Iliad, in conversation with:

Emily Greenwood, Harvard University
Brooke Holmes, Princeton University

Lunch is served at 12:00pm
Talk begins at 12:30pm

Write remarque.institute@nyu.edu to attend in person, or join us via Zoom. Advance registration is strictly required.

The Remarque Institute

60 5th Avenue, 8th floor

Zoom Registration

Emily Wilson on the Iliad

Bringing classical literature to life

Sunday, Oct 29, 2023 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm CT

Chicago History Museum

Chicago Humanities is pleased to partner with the Seminary Co-op Bookstores, a Chicago not-for-profit bookstore whose mission is bookselling. Pre-order your copy of The Iliad through the Chicago Humanities Box Office and save 20% while supporting local, independent bookselling. Add books to your cart when adding tickets. Your receipt will contain a book voucher, which you will show to the bookseller on-site to pick up your book(s).

Please visit our FAQ for more information about ticketing, books, accessibility options, and other event logistics.

Harrisburg Book Festival

The Iliad: A New Translation

Emily Wilson with Stephanie McCarter

Saturday, October 21st | 6:00 pm

Check the host website for details on livestream options

https://centerforfiction.org/event/the-international-library-emily-wilson-on-the-iliad/

Celebrate Books That Live with internationally renowned author Neil Gaiman and pioneering scholar and translator Emily Wilson, in a conversation moderated by acclaimed writer and translator Maria Dahvana Headley. This event, part of The Cooper Union’s Gardiner Foundation Great Hall Forum series, marks the centenary of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., the nation’s largest independent, employee-owned book publisher. Norton traces its origins straight to The Cooper Union’s Great Hall, where, in 1923, William Warder Norton and Mary Dows Herter Norton resolved to publish lectures by leading intellectuals who appeared onstage in a free Sunday series from the People’s Institute. Tonight’s program brings to life the spirit that inspired the Nortons and explores books that exemplify the firm’s motto, Books That Live: timeless myths and epics from preeminent storytellers and translators. The event also celebrates the release of Wilson’s much-anticipated translation of Homer’s Iliad and features a special limited-edition hardcover of Gaiman’s acclaimed Norse Mythology. Signed copies of both books (Norton), as well as Headley’s Beowulf (FSG), will be available for sale at the event by The Strand.

Registration required. Please note this free event is first-come-first-served, and an RSVP does not guarantee admission.

Date: Saturday, October 14, 1:30-2:30

“Deconstruction of Myth'“ a panel with Emily Wilson, Susanna Moore, and Ha Jin

Moderator: Dawn Tripp

Big names. Great ideas. Beautiful surroundings. And a moat.

A weekend of rollicking events with old friends, local heroes and

world-class writers. All served with top-notch food in the stunning gardens

of medieval Mannington Hall. Plus deals galore, with many books for sale at exclusive festival prices!

Good to know

The event will start promptly at 14:00pm. The car park is a short walk from the event tent, so please arrive at Mannington Hall 15 minutes before. That way, you won't be in a rush, and we'll be able to get everyone seated comfortably in plenty of time.

This event will be suitable for people aged 12 and up.

Yes, Emily's book will be for sale! And yes, you can get your copy signed!

Your ticket grants you access to the grounds of Mannington (on the day of the event). Find out about the gardens, walks and wildlife on offer by visiting manningtongardens.co.uk

For transport information, please visit manningtonbookbash.co.uk

Any questions? Email contact@thebookhive.co.uk or phone 01603 219268

Tickets available https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-emily-wilson-on-the-iliad-in-cambridge-tickets-709363444157?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Presented By

The Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

7 pm (Greece) / noon (USA)

Location

ASCSA Cotsen Hall - Hybrid Lectures, Anapiron Polemou 9, Athens 106 76

Anapiron Polemou 9

Athens 106 76

Livestream info available here: https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/events/details/thalia-potamianos-annual-lecture-series-lecture-i-the-vulnerability-of-heroism

Emily Wilson, Edith Hall & Juliet Stevenson: The Iliad

Tickets https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/emily-wilson-edith-hall-juliet-stevenson-the-iliad-tickets-712918878557?_eboga=951623060.1689856616

Emily Wilson on The Iliad

Emily Wilson in conversation with Bridget Murnaghan, Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Professor of Greek at the University of Pennsylvania

Eisenhower Hall

"Translating the Iliad".

On Saturday March 5, 2022 Professor Wilson will discuss her goals and her process in translating the Iliad after the Odyssey in Rubendall Recital Hall at 2 p.m. This will be followed by a concert in Rubendall at 4 p.m. with performances being “Morning Heroes”: Scenes from Book VI of the Iliad by Arthur Bliss, performed by Dickinson Faculty and the Dickinson College Choir.

On Friday March 4, 2022 Professor Emily Wilson, will do a dramatic reading of several passages from her in-progress verse translation of the Iliad, interwoven with discussion of the poem in the Stern Great Room at 4:30pm.

The Atelier at Large Series presents “Mythic Method.” In the latest of a series of conversations on art making in our vexed age, Paul Muldoon is joined by Sarah Ruhl (Eurydice), Stew (Passing Strange; Athens, Georgia) and Emily Wilson (The Odyssey) to discuss the role of myth in modern art.