"HOMER’S ODYSSEY THREE WAYS: RECENT TRANSLATIONS BY VERITY, WILSON, AND GREEN"
J. Whitaker
This is a great paper outlining some flaws with Wilson's translation of the odyssey, and contains some useful references:
"Further, Wilson repeatedly tries to prejudice her readers against Odysseus in subtle and not so subtle ways. At the very start of Odysseus’ long narrative of his wanderings, she warns the reader against believing anything that may follow by extracting from πολύμητις14 (the hero’s stock epithet), ‘Wily Odysseus, the lord of lies’ (9.1)...
...In strong contrast, Wilson does her best to play down the wrongdoing of Odysseus’ adversaries. Of the suitors, she argues that ‘[g]reed, ingratitude, and rudeness are annoying but … rather trivial faults’ "
Useful link to show to some people who don't really know what they're arguing about when it comes to Wilson 👍
"I apologize to the reader for dwelling so much on detail, but in the case of Wilson’s translation that is where the devil lies."
