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This is John Batcher, conversation with Professor Emily Wilson of the University of Pennsylvania for her new translation of the Iliad, an iambic pentameter.

This is the second hour and we come to the role of women in the Iliad in Homer's telling.

The weavers, they weave fate, they weave garments, and also they mourn, they sing,

woe, the loss of their men, their brothers, their sons,

the two roles that women play.

And of course, the tragedy of Iliad is that they sing for all the men who have killed

themselves and then they themselves are enslaved and taken into an servitude for the balance

of their lives, losing their husbands or their

brothers or their sons and losing their children.

The Iliad.

This is Professor Wilson.

I mean, I think it's both modern and very, very ancient. I mean I think it's both modern and very very ancient I mean the tradition of

women singing lament goes back way before this poem was composed. It's a very

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