Tonight! Emily Wilson on Translating Homer's Violence

[The Center for Translation Studies]

Tonight at 6:30pm: join us for our first event of 2014: Emily Wilson (U. Penn) at the Center for Translation Studies at Barnard College, speaking on her project of re-translating Homer.

Translating Homer's Violence

A lecture by Emily Wilson

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

6:30 PM

Ella Weed Room, 2nd Floor Milbank Hall

Barnard College

Emily Wilson, author of various books including The Death of Socrates and translator of Six Tragedies of Seneca, discusses the challenges she has encountered in her current project: re-translating Homer. In particular, she focuses on the problem of translating violence and ponders how a modern translator can render into modern English one of the most violent authors of all time. Wilson is associate professor of Classics at the University of Pennsylvania. This event is sponsored by the Barnard Center for Translation Studies, funded by the Mellon Foundation.

This event is free and open to the public, and it's only the first in a series of lectures and conferences at the Center for Translation Studies this year. To find out about more events, like us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/barnardtranslation) and follow us on Twitter (@bctranslation). 

Thank you, and we hope to see you at the Center for Translation Studies tonight!