ARGONAUT BOOKS

A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer's "nimble gallop" and brings an ancient epic to new life. Reviews The first version of Homer's groundbreaking work by a woman will change our understanding of it for ever... Emily Wilson's crisp and musical version is a cultural landmark. Armed with a sharp, scholarly rigour, she has produced a translation that exposes centuries of masculinist readings of the poem.The Guardian - Charlotte Higgins, Poetry Book of the Day... Emily Wilson proves an appropriately beguiling female translator... This is certainly an Odysse...Read More