Emily Wilson
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214 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
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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So I want to convey that in English however I can.
He's complicated because he's multiple in ways that no other Homeric hero is.
Odysseus is always going to take the roundabout way.
He's going to be constantly disguising himself as someone else.
One of his great skills is code switching.
He can survive those multiple years of being lost, being in multiple different environments, facing threats that no other Homeric hero manages to survive.
surviving goddesses and man-eating giants, surviving all of the threats that face him once he's back on his home island of Ithaca of the men who are besieging his house or who are already inside his house.
He has this capacity for self-reinvention and for having multiple identities, which is very different from anyone else in the universe, in the Homeric universe.
You're talking to as well, right?
Cause he's saying it right to his face.
Exactly.
None of the heroes are good people.
That's not the point of being a hero, right?
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah, so I mean, I think Madeleine's absolutely right.
Though I think we do get some insight into what does it feel like to be Penelope, for instance, in the amazing sequence episode.
where she tells her dreams to the disguised stranger.
She has a wonderful sequence in which she describes her dream in which there are geese in her yard.
And then an eagle swoops down and kills all the geese.
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