Emily Wilson is Department Chair and Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, holding the appointment of College for Women Class of 1963 Term Professor in the Humanities. Professor Wilson attended Oxford University (Balliol College B.A. in Classics and Corpus Christi College M.Phil. in Renaissance English Literature) and Yale University (Ph.D. in Classics and Comparative Literature). She has been named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance & Early Modern scholarship, a MacArthur Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow.
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The Iliad in Ithaca
Emily Wilson in Conversation With Cornell Students and Faculty
Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 4:30pm EDT
Event Overview
The Iliad is a story of anger, conflict, destruction, and loss, but it is also a reflection on solidarity, honor, reconciliation, and compromise. In this special event from the Cornell College of Arts & Sciences, translator Emily Wilson joins Cornell faculty and students to discuss the poem and its impacts.
What You'll Learn
- How Professor Wilson's translation captures the poem in accessible yet elegant language
- The ways in which The Iliad speaks to us today
- More about the world at the time of Homer's writing of The Iliad
- The historical background behind this sometimes magical but often horrifying tale
- The place The Iliad holds in Greek classical literature
Speaker
Emily Wilson
Department Chair and Professor of Classical Studies
University of Pennsylvania
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