Emily Wilson (classicist)
Emily Wilson | |
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Wilson in 2022 | |
| Born | Emily Rose Caroline Wilson 1971 (age 53–54) Oxford, United Kingdom |
| Occupation(s) | Professor, author, translator |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) | Katherine Duncan-Jones A. N. Wilson |
| Relatives | Elsie Duncan-Jones (grandmother) Bee Wilson (sister) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Balliol College, Oxford Corpus Christi College, Oxford |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classicist |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania |
| Notable works | Mocked with Death The Death of Socrates Seneca. Six Tragedies (English translation) The Greatest Empire Odyssey (English translation) Iliad (English translation) |
| Website | www |
Emily Rose Caroline Wilson (born 1971) is a British-American classicist, author, translator, and Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2018, Wilson's translation of Homer's Odyssey became the first by a woman into English verse. 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).