HOMER [EMILY WILSON].
The Iliad.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2023.
$600.00
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Item Number: RRB-152580
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First Edition of Emily Wilson's Translation of Homer's Iliad; Signed by Emily Wilson, the First Woman to Publish a Translation of the Odyssey into English
First edition of Emily Wilson’s acclaimed new translation of Homer’s Iliad, the first woman to publish a translation of the Odyssey into English. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by the translator Emily Wilson on the title page. Near fine in a fine dust jacket, bookplate to the front free endpaper. A beautiful signed copy of one of the most celebrated translations of recent years.
The Iliad, Homer’s epic of the Trojan War, is the foundational poem of the Western literary tradition, recounting the wrath of Achilles and a few climactic weeks in the tenth year of the Greek siege of Troy. This translation by Emily Wilson renders the poem into supple iambic pentameter and was among the most celebrated literary events of its year. Wilson, a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, had in 2017 become the first woman to publish a translation of the Odyssey into English, and her Iliad was greeted with comparable acclaim for its clarity, momentum, and fidelity to the spirit of the original. Together her Homer translations have carried the epics to a vast new readership.
The Iliad.
$600.00
In Stock