Cover of Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature by Emily Wilson
Ancient

Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature

by Emily Wilson ยท Paperbackยท 288 pages
$27.99 CAD $22.40 for BookClub members
Ordered especially for you
The blurb

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--explores the complicated terrain of reading and writing about the ancient past. Drawing on twenty years of scholarship and teaching, Wilson explores the difficult...

Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature$27.99 CAD
Make it a reading experience

Read it the BookClub way

Your selection
Or get a kit like this every month, from $18

Book details

Author
Emily Wilson
Format
Paperback
Pages
288
Published
September 01, 2026
Language
ENG- English
ISBN
9781324099406

About the author

Emily Wilson

Emily Wilson is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been named a fellow of the American Academy in Rome, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a MacArthur Fellow. In addition to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, she has also published translations of Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca. She lives in Philadelphia.

More from Emily Wilson
Read it, log it, unlock it

Add this book to TrophyShelf, our free reading app, and count it toward your trophies. Every book you buy here earns gold, and every 5 books earn a trophy token.

Open TrophyShelf

Read it already?

Tell other readers what you thought. No spoilers, please.

Write a review