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source: bookwyrm
date: 2024-12-30 19:04:41.00 +00
title: "The Iliad by Emily Wilson, Homer"
post_uri: https://bookwyrm.social/user/gravely/comment/6131308
post_id: 6131308
bookwyrm_updated: 2024-12-30T19:04:41.139127+00:00
tags:
  - bookwyrm
book_title: "The Iliad"
book_author: "Emily Wilson, Homer"
book_url: https://bookwyrm.social/book/1225201
reading_status: read
---
![Cover of The Iliad by Emily Wilson, Homer, published 2023-12-07 by Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., a 848-page hardcover](./cover-6131308.png)

I really enjoyed Wilson's “Odyssey” and “Oedipus Tyrannos” translations and had hoped to get to this last fall when I put it on the to-read pile. Alas.

I've never read any The Iliad before, and it does kinda go on a bit (really? that's your thoughts on the Iliad? sure why not, is "it was good" better?). 

Wilson manages to sneak in some slapstick amid all the brutality.