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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I'm Dave Davies.
As audiences are still streaming into theaters to see Christopher Nolan's $250 million adaptation of the classic story The Odyssey, we're speaking with University of Pennsylvania classics professor Emily Wilson.
Her translation of The Odyssey, completed in 2017, was praised by critics and scholars for bringing the ancient text to life.
Nolan cited her translation in discussing his approach to the character of Odysseus in his film.
I want to hear some of what you do.
And it's interesting, you know, in your book, you note that English translations of the Odyssey date back to 1611, I think, and continue up.
And some of them are very recent within, you know, in the 21st century.
So I thought we would take a passage, a familiar passage, maybe have you give us the reading in the original Greek passage.
And then maybe talk about one of the existing translations and then give us a sense of what you did with your own.
So what passage would you like to read to us?
And that's our guest classics professor, Emily Wilson, reciting the first few lines of the Odyssey in the ancient Greek from memory.
Very well done.
You know, I've seen you do this a lot on tape.
You are a real performer.
I love to hum it up.
It's fun.
Yeah.
Yes.
Do you picture yourself then like an actor on a stage or do you picture yourself, I don't know, a couple thousand years ago in a hall doing this before a Greek audience?
Yes.
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