{"id":10827,"date":"2021-09-16T13:38:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T11:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=10827"},"modified":"2021-09-20T16:45:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T14:45:59","slug":"iliad-emily-wilson-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=10827","title":{"rendered":"Iliad translation: Emily Wilson update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Every time I get to work on a new book of the Iliad I find myself thinking, &#39;Wow, this is my favorite book of the whole poem&quot;.  I may have never felt quite that way before about Book 10 &#8212; the night raid &#8212; but I&#39;m feeling it now.<\/p>&mdash; Dr Emily Wilson (@EmilyRCWilson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmilyRCWilson\/status\/1435317281987469323?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An update on Emily Wilson&#8217;s translation of the <em>Iliad<\/em> is always welcome news, and especially given that I have been reading through it again (well sort of!) in recent weeks and it still remains a mystery &#8211; which is okay only up to a point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The above tweet relates to <em>Book 10<\/em>, and I do hope she is not working absolutely chronologically; should she be, there is an awful long way to go! Ever the optimist, this YouTube video clip is of a segment from<em> Book 18<\/em> (recited by Wilson in Greek and her work in progress English translation) where Thetis and the nereids are singing their lament, suggests otherwise. Actually, I would be really interested in knowing a little about her work practice and methods. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"lament of the nereids iliad 18\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HwTc0Z2Rm5g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An update on Emily Wilson&#8217;s translation of the Iliad is always welcome news, and especially given that I have been reading through it again (well sort of!) in recent weeks and it still remains a mystery &#8211; which is okay only up to a point. The above tweet relates to Book 10, and I do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=10827\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Iliad translation: Emily Wilson update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[59,282],"class_list":["post-10827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classics","tag-emily-wilson","tag-iliad"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10827"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10904,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10827\/revisions\/10904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}