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What Emily Wilson’s 'Iliad' Misses - The Atlantic

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Her new translation is inviting to modern readers, but it doesn’t capture the barbaric world of the original.

This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic , Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. Early in Norman Mailer’s Harlot’s Ghost , perhaps the greatest novel about an American bureaucracy, the narrator describes a most unbureaucratic figure, a Maine fisherman named Snowman Dyer who died in 1870 in his sister’s home. Dyer once “bartered five lobsters for a small Greek tome that belonged to a classics scholar at Harvard.” The English translation, which was printed between the lines of Greek, so intrigued

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