Emily Wilson
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214 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 12 Jul
Emily Wilson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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which means much enduring or resilient or he's gone through a lot or this guy is capable of going through a lot.
He's got grit.
He's stubborn.
If I can change how I translate that to fit a different context, then I'm going to give the reader or the listener more of the all-around characterization of the character because the original word connotes all of those things.
And so I can lean into maybe in this scene where Odysseus is weeping as he remembers the Trojan War, maybe then he's polyglas as in he's a veteran of wars.
But maybe he's stubborn if he's polyglas when he's plotting the murder of his wife's suitors.
So there might be ways I can shape the epithets to fit the context of a particular scene.
Honestly, I would dispute the idea that the misogynistic trolls or the trolls of various kinds are actually obsessed with the Odyssey.
I mean, I'd love to have an actual conversation with any one of them about what do you make of line 52 in book 13?
I mean, I'm really interested in the interpretation of that Greek phrase.
We would all love to watch that.
It's never what happens, right?
It's all just online performativity about modern notions about masculinity and greatness and...
and actually whiteness and westernness as well.
None of that is about the Odyssey.
The Odyssey is this really complex portrayal of a heros, which in the archaic context means this outsized character who performs outsized deeds, and he wins kleos, he wins eternal glory through this ability to do extraordinary things which no other mortal could do.
He has a homecoming journey which is impossibly long, and he spends eight years with...
Two different goddesses.
Most mortals don't get to do that.
Most mortals don't fight in a war that lasts 10 years and devise a wooden horse and manage to outwit everybody and slaughter huge numbers of people despite being completely outmatched in his own house.
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