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Emily Wilson’s Sack of Homer | Compact Mag

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The Iliad By Homer, translated by Emily Wilson W.W. Norton & Company, 848 pages, $39.95 In 2017, the classicist Emily Wilson became famous for her translation of Homer’s Odyssey , the opening line of which described Odysseus as “a complicated man.” It was a bold choice that telegraphed a contemporary, colloquial style and intimated that we might be taking the Greek hero down a peg. Now Wilson has returned with a version of Homer’s other epic, which has already drawn plenty of early accolades—but has also been denounced as a “woke Iliad” and even “a crime against the classics.” The reaction is

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