In 2017, Emily Wilson became the first woman to translate Homer’s The Odyssey into English – more than three millennia after the epic’s inception. In the second installment of our Back to School ...
Mr. Mendelsohn, the author of “An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic,” recently published a new translation of the “Odyssey.” The figure lying on the hospital bed — silent and immobile, its head ...
Playwright Derek Walcott's version of the classic layers the sounds and rhythms of his native Caribbean islands over the story's classical structure.