Emily Rose Caroline Wilson (born 1971) is a British American classicist, author, translator, and Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2018, she became the first woman to publish an English translation of Homer’s Odyssey. Her translation of the Iliad was released in September 2023.
She is also the author of several books, including Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton (2004), The Death of Socrates: Hero, Villain, Chatterbox, Saint (2007), and The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca (2014).
Books in order of publication:
Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton. Baltimore (Md.): Johns Hopkins University Press. (2004)
The Death of Socrates: Hero, Villain, Chatterbox, Saint. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. (2007)
The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca. Oxford University Press. (2014)
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