Professor Wilson's books include Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton ( Johns Hopkins 2005), The Death of Socrates: Hero, villain, chatterbox, saint ( Harvard 2007), and The Greatest Empire: A life of Seneca (Oxford UP, 2014). Between 20, Wilson was awarded three Penn Humanities Fellowships on the topics of Virtuality Sex and Violence in 2017 to 2018 she was a Topic Director on Afterlives at Wolf Humanities Center in 2019 through 2025 she was awarded MacArthur Fellowships and in 2020, she won a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2006, she was named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance & Early Modern scholarship.

and Corpus Christi College M.Phil.) and Yale University (Ph.D.). Wilson attended Oxford University (Balliol College B.A. Potamianos named the series in memory of his grandmother, a distinguished Greek doctor, academic, and philanthropist.Įmily Wilson is a Professor in the Department of Classical Studies and Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania and the College for Women Class of 1963 Term Professor in the Humanities. The Thalia Potamianos lectures are being made possible by a generous grant from Phokion Potamianos, an Overseer of the Gennadius Library. Lecture III: Wisdom: Why the Ancient Greeks Can't Teach Us AnythingĪll registrants will also be updated about the publication to follow. Lecture I: Heroes: Big Men, Big Mouths, Big Stories Greek ideas about heroism, time, agency, poetics, politics, and ethics have informed and inspired scholars, students and communities for millennia.' The lectures will overlay these themes onto present day culture.Ģ022–2023 Schedule for The Myth, Magic and Mystery of the Ancient Greeks 'The series will consider what elements of ancient Greek culture are most surprising, most reinterpreted or misunderstood, and most difficult to translate. ' Myth, Magic and Mystery as depicted in ancient Greek epic, drama and philosophy, and their receptions in later cultures including present day, will be the topics for my Thalia Potamianos Lecture Series,' Dr. Andreas Zombanakis, Chairman of the Gennadius Library's Board of Overseers, noted that ' Emily Wilson's dialogue with antiquity is an antidote reminding us of the continuing relevance of the Classics to modern day life and culture.' She is currently working on a translation of Homer's the Iliad. The New York Timesnamed Wilson's translation one of its 100 notable books of 2018. Emily Wilson, recipient of The MacArthur Fellowship 'genius grant' has received attention worldwide as the first woman to publish an English translation of Homer's epic poem, The Odyssey.

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