Emily Wilson on CROSSING THE WINE-DARK SEA

Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson takes readers on a tour through the ancient world for an entertaining examination of Greek and Roman literature and their impact on our modern world. Emily joins us to talk about the joys and challenges of interpreting antiquity, the stakes of poetic form and re-translating The Odyssey with cohost Jenna Seery.

This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Jenna Seery and mixed by Harry Liang.

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Featured Books:

Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson

The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson

The Iliad by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Sappho, translated by Anne Carson

The Oresteia by Aeschylus, translated by Robert Fagles

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, translated by Marin Hammond

The Aeneid by Virgil, translated by Scott McGill & Susannah Wright

The Poems of Catullus by Gaius Valerius Catullus, translated by Stephanie McCarter