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About Emily Wilson

Emily Wilson is Department Chair and Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, holding the College for Women Class of 1963 Term Professor in the Humanities. Wilson attended Oxford University (Balliol College B.A. in Classics and Corpus Christi College M.Phil. in Renaissance English Literature) and Yale University (Ph.D. in Classics and Comparative Literature). She has been named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance & Early Modern scholarship, a MacArthur Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow. She lives in Philadelphia with her family and pets.

Follow Professor Wilson on Substack @EmilyRCWilson. Professor Wilson frequently posts about Homer and translation.

Interviews and profiles of Professor Wilson:

• Hay Festival Book Club (August 2024) “Homer’s The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson” In conversation with Kamila Shamsie, author of Best of Friends and Home Fire, a contemporary reimagining of Sophocles' Antigone

• PBS (October 16, 2023) “How a translation of ‘The Iliad’ into modern language reinforces its re

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  Emily Wilson (classicist)

  British classicist and professor (born 1971)

  Emily Rose Caroline Wilson (born 1971) is a British Americanclassicist, author, translator, and Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2018, Wilson's translation of Homer's Odyssey became the first by a woman into English verse. Her translation of the Iliad was released in September 2023.

  She is also the author of several books, including Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton (2004), The Death of Socrates: Hero, Villain, Chatterbox, Saint (2007), and The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca (2014).

  Early life and education

  Wilson was born in 1971 in Oxford, England.^[1] Her parents are Katherine Duncan-Jones,^[2] who was a scholar of Elizabethan literature, and A. N. Wilson, an English writer.^[1][3]

  Her maternal uncle was a scholar of Roman history at the University of Cambridge, and her maternal grandmother, Elsie Duncan-Jones, was a scholar at the University of Birmingham,^[2] as was