Books This week I read: The Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson I’ve had my eye on this since reading Emily Wilson’s translation of the Iliad back in April. It’s a very different sort of story, but I enjoyed it a lot. It does refer to some of the things I was surprised weren’t in the Iliad, like the Trojan Horse and the death of Achilles; references to the lost epics that would have been common knowledge at the time of the Odyssey’s composition, I suppose. The poem repeatedly mentio...
