| International Standard Book Number |
9781324099406 (paperback)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1324099402 (paperback)
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| Personal Name |
Wilson, Emily R., 1971- author.
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| Title Statement |
Crossing the wine-dark sea : journeys through ancient literature / Emily Wilson.
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| Edition Statement |
First American edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
280 pages ; 21 cm.
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| General Note |
"First published in Great Britain in 2026 by Profile Books Ltd." --Title page verso.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Introduction -- Tongue breaks -- The pleasures of translation -- Web of Rome: how the Romans adopted Greek culture -- The trouble with speeches: the birth of political rhetoric in an ancient democracy -- Slut-shaming Helen of Troy -- Punishment by radish -- Ave, Jeeves! -- Sparrows and scrubbers -- Chill out with the Stoics -- War music -- Unwind the thread -- Ancient worlds: Edith Hamilton and the popularisation of the classics -- Translating the Odyssey -- Afterword: Twenty rules.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"In this sharp and often entertaining tour through antiquity, Emily Wilson--whose renditions of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad have captured a generation's imagination--explores the complicated terrain of reading and writing about the ancient past. Drawing on twenty years of scholarship and teaching, Wilson explores the difficult choices that translators must make, the pleasures of finding new solutions to old problems, and the inevitable frustrations of never fully capturing what is in the original work. Across chapters that range from the politics of Helen of Troy to the obscenities of Aristophanes, from Roman imitation of Greek models to contemporary debates over 'foreignizing' and 'domesticizing' styles, Wilson examines how modern norms of gender, sexuality, violence, humor, and power complicate our readings of ancient works, and how translation always risks denaturing what is unique and strange about the ancient world. Brilliant, erudite, and yet accessible to readers with no classical background, Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea is at once an introduction to the wonders of Greek and Roman literature, a manifesto for the value of translation in a rapidly changing world, and an invitation to encounter ancient cultures anew."-- W.W. Norton website.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Classical literature History and criticism.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Classical literature Translations.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Essays.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Literary criticism.
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