Penelope’s Web - the new translations

Experiments in language, translation, and migration

The translation project

These translations emerged organically from the drama- and music-making of Penelope’s Web.

The King’s College London Global Translations (2023)

Click on each image to open the full translation. This aspect to the project was financially supported by a grant from the King’s AHRS fund for ‘Innovating in Impact & Knowledge Exchange’.

Arabic

Homer Odyssey 9: Odysseus introduces himself to his rescuers after he has escaped drowning, translated by Noorulhuda Tuma and Sarah Abdelmaksoud, Department of Classics, King’s College London

Ovid Heroides 1 ‘Letter from Penelope’, translated by Noorulhuda Tuma and Sarah Abdelmaksoud, Department of Classics, King’s College London