RaveForeign Policy\"...a wide-ranging and compulsively readable book ... if you enjoy Wilson’s shade, you’re in for a treat, because that reviewer voice is the one that you hear in Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea ... You’ll learn a great deal about ancient literature from this book, and even more about the complexity of translation. But you’ll also learn a whole lot about what academics sound like when the (polite, erudite) knives come out with surgical precision ... As always, Wilson is pushing us to be better readers of Homer—and of her.\
