Emily Wilson Quotes

“My friend Patroclus, whom I loved, is dead.
I loved him more than any other comrade.
I loved him like my head, my life, myself.
I lost him, killed him.
[. . .]
. . .my Patroclus, son of Menoetius.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Tell me about a complicated man,
Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost...

...And where he went, and who he met, the pain
He suffered on the sea, and how he worked
To bring his men back home."
- Emily Wilson Translation of Homer's Odyssey”
― Homer, The Odyssey