C. Luke Soucy & Emily Wilson celebrate Queer Roman Verse on 12/1 at 6pm

Join translator and Barnes & Noble Philadelphia on Monday, December 1st at 6pm at Barnes & Noble Philadelphia (1708 Chestnut Street) for a discussion of , a vital reclamation of queer themes in the poetry of ancient Rome from an electric new talent in classical translation.

He will be joined in conversation by celebrated translator .

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TICKET INFORMATION

General Admission - FREE **LIMITED QUANTITY AVAILABLE**: A ticket PER PERSON includes:

• Admission to the event space and signing line with
• For General Admission Tickets: A limited quantity is available and will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis. Registering for a ticket guarantees entrance to the event for the discussion and signing. Ticket holders will be granted a standing view from behind the seated audience -- some views may be more limited/obstructed than others.

Seated Admission w/ Book: $30.23 (Admission + one copy ) **LIMITED QUANTITY AVAILABLE**: A ticket PER PERSON includes:

• One copy of (published 12/01/2026)

• Admission and seat in the event space and signing line with .
• For Seated Tickets: A limited quantity is available and will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis. Purchase of a ticket guarantees entrance to the event for the discussion and signing. However, this ticket may not necessarily guarantee a seat at the event, as arrivals after the start of the event may be placed in standing room behind the seated audience.

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REFUNDS

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Event guidelines are subject to change.

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C. Luke Soucy is a translator and classicist residing in Princeton, New Jersey. His verse translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses won the Raffaella Cribiore Award for Outstanding Translation and was shortlisted for the National Translation Award.

Centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire, as new global empires sought to enshrine the art and literature of their ancient predecessor, some inconvenient truths were lost in translation. Queer love and desire—expressed freely and variously throughout Roman poetry, from the lyrics of Horace to the epics of Virgil and Ovid—had no lexicon in nineteenth-century English, whose classical revivalists passed down a canon shaped by Victorian ideals governing family, moral discipline, and public virtue. To English readers, the queer contours of Rome became disguised, distorted, or erased.

This landmark anthology, spanning four centuries and fourteen major poets, offers a long-overdue correction to the record. Vibrant, nimble meters by award-winning translator C. Luke Soucy keep pace with Latin formulations, revealing a rich current of queer themes that have always been present in those great works of antiquity—and a powerful reminder that what has always been here has always been queer.

Emily Wilson is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been named a fellow of the American Academy in Rome, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a MacArthur Fellow. In addition to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, she has also published translations of Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca. She lives in Philadelphia.