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Key ideas from the book
- Translating ancient literature involves difficult choices, and no version can capture every quality of an original.
- Finding new solutions to old translation problems can be intellectually rewarding.
- Modern assumptions about gender, sexuality, violence, humor, and power influence how readers interpret ancient works.
- Translation can make ancient writing accessible while also risking the loss of what is strange or distinctive about it.
- Greek and Roman literature can be approached by readers without prior classical training.
About Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature by Emily Wilson
Emily Wilson examines the choices and challenges involved in reading, writing about, and translating ancient literature. Drawing on two decades of scholarship and teaching, she considers both the pleasure of finding fresh solutions to old translation problems and the limits of carrying an ancient work fully into another language.
Her discussions range across Greek and Roman writing, including the politics surrounding Helen of Troy, Aristophanes’ obscenities, and Roman engagement with Greek models. Wilson also explores how modern ideas about gender, sexuality, violence, humor, and power shape interpretations of ancient texts, and how translation can soften what is distinctive or unfamiliar about the past.
Accessible to readers without a background in classics, this book will interest anyone curious about Greek and Roman literature, translation, and the ways contemporary readers encounter ancient cultures.
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