Emily Wilson’s Translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey, and Walter J. Ong’s Thought

Abstract

In the first part of my article, I highlight the work of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian and pioneering media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955) of Saint Louis University. In the second part, I discuss the classicist Emily Wilson’s translations of The Odyssey (2018) and The Iliad (2023).