Dave Davies
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5,382 appearances
57 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 7 Sep
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Wow.
So you really put yourself in a difficult position here.
You're not only taking these sophisticated ideas and images and stories, trying to put them in English, but you're doing it using meter and iambic pentameter.
And you also use the same number of lines as the original poem?
How many, 12,000, something like that?
Well, we're going to talk about this a little more.
We need to take a break here, though.
Let me reintroduce you.
We are speaking with Emily Wilson.
She's a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania who has translated The Iliad and The Odyssey.
Her new collection of essays is titled Crossing the Wine Dark Sea.
I'm Dave Davies, and this is Fresh Air Weekend.
Are We Doomed looks at big problems.
Nobody would rationally want nuclear war.
That's not quite correct.
Are We Doomed?
Solving humanity's biggest threats.
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Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
This is Fresh Air Weekend.
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