The translator Emily Wilson has spent the past decade re-democratizing Homer’s poetry for a modern audience—her radically plainspoken Odyssey, published six years ago, was the first English translation by a woman, and her Iliad will be published at the end of September. Her translations strip away the “tarnish of centuries,” retaining the power of a storyteller’s voice to fix themselves in her readers’ memories. “I write for the body,” she said. #theiliad #ancientgreek #translation | The New Yor