Absolutely love Emily Wilson’s translations. Her work on The Iliad is phenomenal. She keeps the pacing and the urgency in a way no other translator in English has managed to do, whilst keeping all the beauty. Her project involves translating Greek texts for how they would have been understood at the time, which means not using archaic “epic” English and instead using modern, colloquial English. Those hearing the Iliad would not have heard something archaic, it was modern, it was fresh. She takes this approach and it pays dividends.