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đźš¨ Matthijs de Ligt 'emerges as concrete target' for Man Utd

Jun 28, 2024 | ca.sports.yahoo.com | Emily Wilson

Manchester United have reportedly added Matthijs de Ligtâ€™s name to their wishlist. According to an update from The Athletic, the Premier League giants view the 24-year-old centre-back as a viable option to boost their defence. The current Bayern Munich man previously played under Erik Ten Hag during his time at Ajax. It was then that De Ligt announced himself in the football world, as the Dutch club famously reached the Champions League semi-finals.
ð¥ How did Angel Di Maria not score against Canada here?!

Jun 20, 2024 | sports.yahoo.com | Emily Wilson

Argentina could have had a dream start to their 2024 Copa AmÃ©rica opener against Canada on Thursday. But Angel Di Maria missed the best chance of the game less than 10 minutes in. Canada failed to capitalize on a corner and instead gifted the World Cup winners an opportunity on the breakaway. With zero defenders back, Di Maria was one-on-one with Maxime Crepeau. However, he couldnât beat the goalkeeper.
ð¬ The Debrief on Saturday's NWSL action

Jun 16, 2024 | sports.yahoo.com | Emily Wilson

More National Women's Soccer League action continued on Saturday with four games scheduled across the United States. Here is what went down. What happened? Gotham FC kicked off the weekend action with a 2-0 road win at Racing Louisville. They are now unbeaten in 10. Draws were later a theme, with Washington Spirit breaking San Diego Wave hearts and splitting the points 1-1. Orlando Pride then missed a chance to move top after a goalless draw against North Carolina.
Raphinha sticks up for Brazil squad following criticism from Ronaldinho

Jun 15, 2024 | sports.yahoo.com | Emily Wilson

Raphinha made a statement of support for his team-mates after former player Ronaldinho criticized the Brazil national team. The Brazilian legend made headlines on Saturday after claiming he will 'boycott' watching the national team at the Copa América due to the squad's mentality. "This is perhaps one of the worst teams in recent years," said Ronaldinho on Instagram. "It has no respectable leaders, only average players for the majority ...
Gilgamesh

Dec 13, 2023 | titanbooks.com | Emily Wilson

Now is the time for the gods of warGilgamesh, soon to be crowned King of Uruk, travels north to find his homelands in flames and his family on the run. A blood-red moon brings warnings of a new kind of war, and in the far north, the enemies of Sumer are massing. Inanna and Ninshubar sail south to take their revenge upon Enki, the king of the water gods.
Good Jar, Bad Jar

Oct 25, 2023 | lrb.co.uk | Emily Wilson |Ange Mlinko

The inspiration for the Iliad was a ruin. The nine pancaked layers of an Asian city referred to as Wilusa on Hittite clay tablets – and known as Ilios or Troia to the ancient Greeks – lie under a mound called Hissarlik in north-western Turkey. The events of the Iliad supposedly take place around the time of the collapse of the Bronze Age in the 12th century BC. By the time the poem was composed, several hundred years later, Troy was abandoned, its history constituted by rumour and myth.
ROMAN STORIES | Kirkus Reviews

Oct 10, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Todd Portnowitz |Emily Wilson |Barbara Kingsolver

A masterful, highly readable rendering of the Greek classic. A bloody tale of ancient war and grief comes to vibrant life in modern-day English. While, in 2018, Wilson was the first woman to translate Homer’s Odyssey into English, her Iliad is the second by a woman in the past 10 years, following Caroline Alexander’s in 2015.
“I Began With Sound”

Oct 2, 2023 | publicbooks.org | Emily Wilson |Charlotte Rosen

I first began reading Homer in high school, early in my study of ancient Greek. I liked the Odyssey, but I loved the Iliad with a passionate devotion. I have now lived with this poem for some 35 years—rereading it, teaching it in the original and in various translations, and, now, rendering it into English. For the past six years, I have worked intensively on this translation.
The ‘Iliad’ We’ve Lost

Oct 2, 2023 | newyorkfolk.com | James White |Emily Wilson

Early in Norman Mailer’s Harlot’s Ghost, perhaps the greatest novel about an American bureaucracy, the narrator describes a most unbureaucratic figure, a Maine fisherman named Snowman Dyer who died in 1870 in his sister’s home. Dyer once “bartered five lobsters for a small Greek tome that belonged to a classics scholar at Harvard.” The English translation, which was printed between the lines of Greek, so intrigued Dyer that he decided to read the original.
Emily Wilson’s Sack of Homer

Sep 26, 2023 | compactmag.com | Emily Wilson

The IliadBy Homer, translated by Emily WilsonW.W. Norton & Company, 848 pages, $39.95In 2017, the classicist Emily Wilson became famous for her translation of Homer’s Odyssey, the opening line of which described Odysseus as “a complicated man.” It was a bold choice that telegraphed a contemporary, colloquial style and intimated that we might be taking the Greek hero down a peg.