Emily Wilson is my kind of academic. She can go deep about the recurrent geopolitical forces that resurrect interest in The Odyssey over millennia. And she also says things like: “The eye sizzling on the stake. Love that!”
How One Woman Conquered ‘The Odyssey’Emily Wilson’s best-selling translation of the Greek epic, which was praised by Christopher Nolan, brings the wisdom of ancient times to the present.www.esquire.com