{"id":17003,"date":"2023-10-05T11:18:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T10:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=17003"},"modified":"2025-09-05T16:14:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:14:46","slug":"my-iliad-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=17003","title":{"rendered":"A hero on my doorstep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The god&#8217;s have favored me, and Emily Wilson&#8217;s new translation of Homer&#8217;s <em>The Iliad<\/em> has arrived promptly from across the wide Atlantic seas. And glorious it is indeed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#c942082b\"><strong>Homer,&nbsp;<\/strong><em><strong>The Iliad<\/strong><\/em><strong>, translated by Emily Wilson, First Edition, New York: W.W. Norton, 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/iliad_cover-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17030\" style=\"object-fit:cover;width:492px;height:369px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/iliad_cover-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/iliad_cover-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/iliad_cover-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/iliad_cover-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/iliad_cover-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/iliad_cover.jpg 1613w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>My copy of Emily Wilson\u2019s translation of Homer\u2019s&nbsp;&#8220;The Iliad&#8221;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Below is the video of a recent event at the Library of Philadelphia promoting this newest work of scholarship.  Emily Wilson is in conversation here with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classics.upenn.edu\/people\/sheila-murnaghan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sheila Murnaghan<\/a>, chair of the Department of Classical Studies at Penn (and, therefore, a colleague).<\/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=\"Emily Wilson | The Iliad\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hOzmmNMgN-w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Author Events, Library of Philadelphia, September 26 2023<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The god&#8217;s have favored me, and Emily Wilson&#8217;s new translation of Homer&#8217;s The Iliad has arrived promptly from across the wide Atlantic seas. And glorious it is indeed! Homer,&nbsp;The Iliad, translated by Emily Wilson, First Edition, New York: W.W. Norton, 2023. Below is the video of a recent event at the Library of Philadelphia promoting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=17003\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A hero on my doorstep&#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":[59,449,282],"class_list":["post-17003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classics","tag-emily-wilson","tag-homer","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\/17003","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=17003"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18544,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17003\/revisions\/18544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}