Emily Wilson (classicist)

Emily Wilson
Wilson in 2022
Born
Emily Rose Caroline Wilson

1971 (age 52–53)
Oxford, United Kingdom
Occupation(s)Professor, author, translator
Children3
Parent(s)Katherine Duncan-Jones
A. N. Wilson
RelativesElsie Duncan-Jones (grandmother)
Bee Wilson (sister)
Academic background
EducationBalliol College, Oxford
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Alma materYale University
Academic work
DisciplineClassicist
InstitutionsUniversity of Pennsylvania
Notable worksMocked with Death
The Death of Socrates
Seneca. Six Tragedies (English translation)
The Greatest Empire
Odyssey (English translation)
Iliad (English translation)
Websitewww.emilyrcwilson.com

Emily Rose Caroline Wilson (born 1971) is a British American classicist, author, translator, and Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.[1] In 2018, she became the first woman to publish an English translation of Homer's Odyssey.[2][3] 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).

  1. ^ Emily R. Wilson, University of Pennsylvania.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Sweeney 2023 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Mason, Wyatt (2 November 2017). "The First Woman to Translate the 'Odyssey' Into English". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 5 November 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2018.