I had three false starts with Fagles but just tore through Wilson’s translation. Her introduction is really good, too. A fun postscript is Atwood’s “The Penelo

I had three false starts with Fagles but just tore through Wilson’s translation. Her introduction is really good, too. A fun postscript is Atwood’s “The Penelopiad.” It’s short and really entertaining. “Let me add that meat was highly valued among us – the aristocracy ate lots of it, meat, meat, meat, and all they ever did was roast it: ours was not an age of haute cuisine. Oh, I forgot: there was also bread, flatbread that is, bread, bread, bread, and wine, wine, wine. We did have the odd fruit or vegetable, but you’ve probably never heard of these because no one put them into the songs much.”