Emily Wilson

Emily Rose Caroline Wilson (born 1971) is a British classicist who is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Pennsylvania.^[1][2] She is the daughter of A. N. Wilson^[3] and Katherine Duncan-Jones^[4] and the sister of the food writer Bee Wilson.^[5]

A graduate of Balliol College, Oxford in 1992 (BA in Literae Humaniores, Classical Literature and Philosophy), she undertook her MPhil in English Renaissance Literature (1994) at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and her Doctorate (2001) in Classical and Comparative Literature at Yale University.^[1] In 2006, she won a Rome Prize.

Emily Wilson is a book reviewer for The Times Literary Supplement,^[6] and the London Review of Books.^[7] and The New Republic^[8] She is the classics editor for the Norton Anthologies of World Literature and Western Literature. ^{[9] [10]}

Bibliography

• The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca, Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0199926640.
• Six Tragedies, Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0192807069.
• The Death of Socrates: Hero, Villain, Chatterbox, Saint, Harvard University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-674-02683-4.
• Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0-8018-7964-7.

Articles and Reviews by Wilson

• In Plain Sight: The life and lies of Jimmy Savile by Dan Davies, review, The Times Literary Supplement, November 21, 2014.
• “Slut-Shaming Helen of Troy”, review of Helen of Troy: Beauty, Myth, Devastation by Ruby Blondell, The New Republic, April 26, 2014.
• Across the Pond – An Englishman’s view of America by Terry Eagleton, review, The Times Literary Supplement, August 30, 2013.
• Homer's Iliad. Translated by Anthony Verity, review, Translation and Literature volume 22, issue 2; 2013.
• The Dramaturgy of Senecan Tragedy by Thomas Kohn, review, Classical Journal, September 7, 2013.
• “The Trouble With Speeches: The Birth of Political Rhetoric in an Ancient Democracy”, review of Demosthenes of Athens and the Fall of Classical Greece by Ian Worthington, The New Republic, April 27, 2013.
• “The Origins of Foreigners”, review of Rethinking the Other in Antiquity By Erich S. Gruen, The New Republic, August 24, 2012.
• Nikos G. Charalabopoulos, Platonic Drama and its Ancient Reception., review, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2012.12.62.
• "Found in Translation: Reading the classics with help from the Loeb Library", slate, August 15, 2006.

Reviews of Wilson's Work

• "Nero to Zero", Literary Review, Tim Whitmarsh, March 2015.
• "The hemlock and the chatterbox", The Times Literary Supplement, Carolyne Larrington, October 17, 2007.

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