Emily Wilson

Emily Wilson is a Professor of Classical Studies and Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. She is the author of The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca (2014). She was the Classics editor, third edition of the Norton Anthology of World Literature (2012), and translator of Six Tragedies of Seneca (2010). She is also the author of The Death of Socrates: Hero, Villain, Chatterbox, Saint (2007), and Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton (2004), which won the Charles Bernheimer Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association, 2003.