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Emily Wilson (classicist)

British classicist, translator and author (born 1971)

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Source revisionSep 22, 2026
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Emily Wilson is a British and American classicist and translator. She is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her translation of Homer's Odyssey, published in 2017, is the first by a woman into English verse. Her translation of the Iliad was published in 2023.

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