August 30, 2026 archive

Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson

Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson

As a relatively uninformed reader of The Odyssey — one trip through it unaccompanied while traveling across Central Europe in the mid-1990s; I don’t even remember which translation I read, only that I was mesmerized — I was happy to read all of Emily Wilson’s introductory material before embarking on the poem itself. What is known about …

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