I'm (intermittently) trying to read the Iliad using the Loeb side-by-side text, i.e. try to figure out the Greek and use the English on the facing page as a (fr

I'm (intermittently) trying to read the Iliad using the Loeb side-by-side text, i.e. try to figure out the Greek and use the English on the facing page as a (frequent) crib. It's very hard work, even though the English is a fairly literal translation, but at the same time very rewarding: it's true that you can only really appreciate poetry in the original.