A Translator’s Reckoning With the Women of The Odyssey

The New Yorker

"I wanted the reader of my English to feel as I do in reading the Greek: for Penelope, and with her pain, rather than prettifying or trivializing her grief."

A Translator’s Reckoning With the Women of The Odyssey

Many readers of the poem want Penelope, Odysseus’ strong-willed wife, to…

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