Emily Wilson

The Iliad

Homero,

“THIS TRANSLATION WILL CHANGE THE WAY THE POEM IS READ IN ENGLISH.” — CHARLOTTE HIGGINS, THE GUARDIAN

Written in iambic pentameter verse, Emily Wilson's Odyssey is a lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s “nimble gallop” and brings an ancient epic to new life.  The New York Times named Wilson’s translation as one of its 100 notable books of 2018. 

The Odyssey

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

This is a lively, readable and accurate verse translation of the six best plays by one of the most influential of all classical Latin writers. The volume includes Phaedra, Oedipus, Medea, Trojan Women, Hercules Furens, and Thyestes, together with an invaluable introduction and notes.

Six Tragedies

"The life and works of Seneca pose a number of fascinating challenges. For one thing, how can we reconcile the bloody, passionate tragedies, with the prose works advocating a life of Stoic tranquility? An even more challenging question is, how are we to reconcile Seneca the Stoic philosopher, the man of principle, who advocated a life of calm and simplicity, with Seneca the man of the moment, who amassed a vast personal fortune in the service of an emperor seen by many, at the time and afterwards, as an insane tyrant? In this biography, Emily Wilson will present Seneca as a man under enormous pressure, struggling for compromise in a world of absolutism. His work and his life both show, in fascinating ways, the fissures and cracks created by the clash of the ideal and the real: the gulf between political hopes and fears, and philosophical ideals; the gap between what we want to be, and what we are. The book will assume no prior knowledge either of ancient Roman society, Stoicism, Seneca's life or work, but will weave these features together into a lively narrative, while presenting new insights into an author whose reputation is currently experiencing a revival within the academy"--

A Life of Seneca

The Greatest Empire

A tale brimming with warring gods, rebellious humans, and the goddess of love caught between them whose destiny has the power to transform the shape of the world.

Stories are sly things…they can be hard to catch and kill.

Inanna is an impossibility. The first full Anunnaki born on Earth in Ancient Mesopotamia. Crowned the goddess of love by the twelve immortal Anunnaki who are worshipped across Sumer, she is destined for greatness.

But Inanna is born into a time of war. The Anunnaki have split into warring factions, threatening to tear the world apart. Forced into a marriage to negotiate a peace, she soon realises she has been placed in terrible danger.  

Gilgamesh, a mortal human son of the Anunnaki, and notorious womaniser, finds himself captured and imprisoned. His captor, King Akka, seeks to distance himself and his people from the gods. Arrogant and selfish, Gilgamesh is given one final chance to prove himself.

Ninshubar, a powerful warrior woman, is cast out of her tribe after an act of kindness. Hunted by her own people, she escapes across the country, searching for acceptance and a new place in the world.

As their journeys push them closer together, and their fates intertwine, they come to realise that together, they may have the power to change to face of the world forever.

The first novel in the stunning Sumerians Trilogy, this is a gorgeous, epic retelling of one of the oldest surviving works of literature. 

Inanna

Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton

Mocked with Death

This book traces the eventful life of Seneca, the Roman philosopher, dramatist, essayist and rhetorician of the first century CE, who came from Spain to Rome, spent his youth in Egypt, was exiled to Corsica under Claudius but recalled after eight years, and rose to dizzying heights of wealth, power and social influence under Nero, before falling from favour and being forced to kill himself. The book analyzes the relationship of Seneca's life story to his literary self-fashioning, and the tensions between the external worlds of politics, consumerism, and social success, with the Stoic ideals of asceticism, virtue and self-control.

A Life

Seneca

Examines how the trial and death of Socrates has impacted the Western world throughout history.

The Death of Socrates

Homer

Iliad

The poems in The Keep are influenced by art, by paintings, by thinking about abstraction and figuration and the space between, beauty apprehended and lost, the divine apprehended and lost. Emily Wilson's poems are also saturated with nature; from the great oaks emptying, russet, gusseted to the caribou moving through us beyond numerous, each image connects the natural world of tides and marshes and forests to the human world of documentation and preservation. The image of the keep as a place of safety and as a kind of prison also informs this very strong collection.

Poems

The Keep

Martin Puchner

Caroline Levine

Barbara Fuchs

Suzanne Conklin Akbari

Pericles Lewis

Wiebke Denecke

The Norton Anthology of World Literature, 4e Volumes a + B + C + D + E + F

The Norton Anthology of World Literature, 4e Volumes B + C + D

Help all students see the power and relevance of world literature--with the most inclusive and effective teaching anthology available

Post-1650

The Norton Anthology of World Literature

Vinay Dharwadker

The most-trusted and most-respected text in its field is now brand-new in all the best ways.

Good Night, Bears: Learning About Hibernation is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.1.8 and Literacy.L.1.4. Big brown bears and their cubs go through all the steps to get ready for hibernation. Readers will love the up-close photographs and narrative nonfiction text. This book should be paired with Why Do Animals Hibernate?" (9781448889952) from the InfoMax Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.

Good Night, Bears: Learning About Hibernation

Ha habido vidas y muertes heroicas antes y después, pero ninguna como la de Sócrates. No murió esgrimiendo una espada o una lanza, ni luchando en defensa de su hogar o de su patria, sino condenado como un criminal y obligado a tragarse una indolora dosis de cicuta. Y sin embargo, la muerte de Sócrates, que tuvo lugar el año 399 antes de nuestra era, ha seguido presente en nuestra cultura desde entonces, contribuyendo a dar forma a nuestra manera de pensar acerca del heroismo y la fama, la religión y la vida familiar, el control del Estado y la libertad individual, la distancia entre la vida intelectual y la actividad cotidiana, muchos de los elementos clave de la cultura occidental. En este libro, Emily Wilson analiza la enorme y duradera influencia que el juicio y la muerte de Sócrates han ejercido sobre el imaginario occidental. A partir de los relatos de autores contemporáneos como Aristófanes, Jenofonte y, por encima de todos, Platón, el libro presenta una exhaustiva visión de la muerte de Sócrates como acontecimiento histórico y como ideal cultural polémico. Wilson demuestra que la muerte de Sócrates -más que su carácter, sus acciones y sus creencias filosóficas- ha desempeñado un papel esencial en su historia. La autora analiza las obras literarias, filosóficas y artísticas -de Cicerón, Erasmo, Milton, Voltaire, Hegel, Nietzsche, Brecht, Dürrematt y Derrida, entre otros- que utilizaron la muerte de Sócrates para hablar del poder, la política, la religión, la vida de la mente y la buena vida. Tan ameno de lectura como cargado de erudición, este libro combina una vívida capacidad de descripción y un profundo conocimiento histórico para explorar cómo la muerte de Sócrates -especialmente su aparente control- ha sido tan importante, durante tanto tiempo, para tantas personas en la cultura occidental. Wilson aporta explicaciones plausibles de por qué los atenienses decidieron condenar a muerte a Sócrates. Sus opiniones políticas antidemocráticas, sus asociaciones con quienes habían actuado de forma impía, su irritante arrogancia y posiblemente: el haber humillado públicamente a sus acusadores, fueron los motivos subyacentes a los cargos de corrupción de la juventud y de menosprecio a los dioses de la ciudad. Pero la verdadera fuerza de este libro es la habilidad para caracterizar a los numerosos Sócrates que han existido a lo largo de la historia.

Emily Wilson

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