Emily Wilson
Professor of Classics at the University of Pennsylvania, author.
British classicist and Professor of Classics at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of five books and in 2017 became one of the first women to publish a translation of Homer's Odyssey into English. She is a well-known figure in the Stoic community due to her translations of Seneca as well as her biography of the man.
Stoicism, the intellectual movement with which Seneca most closely associated, was designed to create a possibility of individual happiness in times of vast social unrest.