{"id":17771,"date":"2024-02-08T16:50:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T15:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=17771"},"modified":"2025-09-05T15:08:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T13:08:55","slug":"an-epic-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=17771","title":{"rendered":"An epic evening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the UK leg of her book tour at the end of last year, Emily Wilson accepted the <em>London Review of Books<\/em> invitation to present her <em>Iliad<\/em> translation. And they found a wonderful discussion partner for her in <a href=\"https:\/\/edithhall.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Edith Hall<\/a>. And complimented by a thespian pair conjured from amongst the embarrassment of riches which <em>is<\/em> the theatrical talent of a nation &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Juliet_Stevenson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Juliet Stevenson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tobias_Menzies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tobias Menzies<\/a>. Stellar, I say! Such an evening could only happen in London. <\/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=\"The Iliad: Emily Wilson, Juliet Stevenson, Tobias Menzies and Edith Hall\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_wGFMMBrTzE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Conway Hall, London, on 2 October 2023.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the UK leg of her book tour at the end of last year, Emily Wilson accepted the London Review of Books invitation to present her Iliad translation. And they found a wonderful discussion partner for her in Edith Hall. And complimented by a thespian pair conjured from amongst the embarrassment of riches which is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=17771\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An epic evening&#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":[4,450,21],"tags":[217,59,222,153,336,479],"class_list":["post-17771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classics","category-my-iliad","category-video","tag-edith-hall","tag-emily-wilson","tag-juliet-stevenson","tag-london-review-of-books","tag-the-iliad","tag-tobias-menzies"],"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\/17771","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=17771"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17778,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17771\/revisions\/17778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}