Emily Wilson
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132 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3 Aug
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I was going to do the beginning of the Iliad because you have more copies of that over there.
Is that okay?
I'm not going to read.
I'm just going to do it.
You're going to do it.
Yes.
Thank you.
That's, of course, the original.
Where is it?
of the Iliad.
As you can hear, it's in, as I sort of tried to ham up the way that it's in dactylic hexameter.
We can do a close reading of the passage if we want to, in whatever ways we want to do that.
Now I'm going to do my translation, which, as you'll hear, is in iambic pentameter, leaning into the poetic traditions of the language I'm writing in.
Goddess, sing of the cataclysmic wrath of great Achilles, son of Peleus, that caused the Greeks immeasurable pain and sent so many noble souls of heroes to Hades and made men the spoils of dogs, a banquet for the birds.
And so the plan of Zeus unfolded, starting with the conflict between great Agamemnon, lord of men, and glorious Achilles.
It's very difficult to describe.
I mean, it comes from epos, which just means word or story.
In antiquity, it's a particular kind of word or story in narrative verse.
The Homeric poems are based on an oral tradition, but later epics are not based on an oral tradition.
They're based on poems that have been based on oral traditions.
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