Keynote: The Iliad in Ithaca

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

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Emily Wilson

Department Chair and Professor of Classical Studies

University of Pennsylvania

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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