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The New York Times1y
Exit Hector, Again and Again: How Different Translators Reveal the ‘Iliad’ Anew
The Original ‘Iliad’ 6. 482-497 The original poem is composed in beautifully musical, metrically regular dactylic hexameter, and designed to be performed out loud: It is poetry for the mouth ...
The Washington Post1y
The new ‘Iliad’ translation is a genuine page-turner
In her “Odyssey,” Wilson restricted herself to the same number of lines as the original poem, meaning that some sections came across as somewhat abrupt in English. In her “Iliad,” she has ...
Mental Floss1y
A New Translation of ’The Iliad’ Is Bringing a Truer Ancient Greece to Modern Readers
Greek mythology fans and history buffs can go back to where it all started with Emily Wilson’s brand-new translation of Homer’s ’The Iliad,’ the original story of Achilles and the Trojan War.
The Martha's Vineyard Times8d
A modern adaptation of the ‘Iliad’
Two of the Island’s own have partnered to offer a one-person show about the timeless toll of war that is sure to set your ...
The Boston Globe6mon
Burbage Theatre’s one-man, one-muse ‘An Iliad’ explores the glory and grief of battle
PAWTUCKET, R.I. — In “An Iliad,” which received both an Obie and Lucille Lortel Award for its 2012 off-Broadway production, playwrights Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare offer a compressed ...