Emily Wilson

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468 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 1 Aug

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Fresh Air · ‘Odyssey’ translator Emily Wilson: Nolan should've hired a screenwriter · 29 Jul 2026 podcast

So it was assumed that Bea and I would spend most of our time reading.

And we did.

Yes.

So I went to the local primary school and the teachers there were getting sick of doing nativity plays every year.

So they wanted to mix it up and use their creativity.

So they did a kid's adaptation of the Odyssey and B was Helen of Troy.

She was great.

And I got to be Athena and I got to make my own tinfoil helmet.

And we got to gouge out the eye of the headmaster who played Polyphemus.

He was wonderfully game and let us do it.

And it was such fun.

And for me, as a very shy child, I realized that there was this wonderful outlet through the world of stories, especially through the world of Greek myth.

So it turned me on to the fact that this world of magic existed.

And I was the wrong generation for Percy Jackson, but I read...

All of the kids' adaptations that I could get my hands on.

And then eventually I went to a high school where I could learn Latin and Greek.

And so my life was made.

Yeah, I think it's partly, I mean, just specifically about the fact that when I was studying Homer as an undergraduate, nobody ever said, you must read this or that translation.

Translations were very much despised.

They were for amateurs.

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