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Achilles mourns the death of Patroclus — Emily Wilson

Achilles mourns the death of Patroclus. Performed by Emily Wilson at the International Poetry Forum, 2024. When we say we love someone, we don’t usually say we love them “like my own head.” But this is exactly what Achilles says: Emily Wilson’s “I loved him like my head” is a literal translation of an Ancient Greek idiom. Since this expression is not idiomatic in English, translators have almost always changed “head” (κεφαλῇ) into something more figurative. Richmond Lattimore, who performed at Pittsburgh’s International Poetry Forum 50 years before Dr. Wilson, has Achilles say that he loved Patroclus like his “own life.” Wilson’s decision to preserve the original metaphor allows us to experience what fellow Oxford graduate Owen Barfield would call a moment of poetic “strangeness.” In her introductory remarks to this performance, Wilson said her translation philosophy involves trying “to convey [ancient] metaphors, even if the metaphors are strange to a modern reader. I want to enable a new set of recognitions about what’s strange and what’s familiar.” Wilson has been reading Homer in the original Greek for four decades. One of the most exciting aspects of her translation work is this sense of imaginative strangeness, of encountering radically different poetic figurations of the world. #emilywilson #homer #iliad #odyssey #translation #ancientpoetry #ancientgreek #literature #humanities #internationalpoetryforum #poetry #englishpoetry #poetrylovers #poetrygram #poetsofinstagram #poetrytok #classics #classicalpoetry #liberalarts #theiliad #achilles #greek #patroclus #metaphor #greekmythology #spokenword #patrochilles #emilywilsoniliad #emilywilsontattoos [International Poetry Forum, 2024. All works c. authors; all rights reserved.]