Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature

"An enthralling and profoundly relevant book." -Salman Rushdie

"I adored reading these joyful, illuminating, and engrossing journeys through ancient literature." -Madeline Miller

From the most celebrated translator of our time comes a visionary exploration of how translation reshapes and enriches our understanding of the ancient world.

In this sharp and often entertaining tour through antiquity, Emily Wilson-whose renditions of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad have captured a generation's imagination...