How do we give new voices to old words? What must a translator lose – and what might she gain? Emily Wilson, Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, has spent a lifetime wrestling with these questions, particularly in her critically acclaimed translations of The Odyssey and The Iliad. Her new book Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea invites us to consider the messages of translators, from antiquity to today. Join Emily for a playful and fascinating voyage into the promise, possibility and constant renewal of classical literature.

In conversation with Alice Oswald.