Parts of the story probably are missing. His Iliad translation leaves out Book 10 with the Night Raid, entirely. A wonderful takedown of Mitchell is Homer, Inc.

Parts of the story probably are missing. His Iliad translation leaves out Book 10 with the Night Raid, entirely. A wonderful takedown of Mitchell is Homer, Inc. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v34/n04/edward-luttwak/homer-inc https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v34/n04/edward-luttwak/homer... Mitchell as a 'translator' is poetry in, garbage out. He bowdlerizes. Read Lattimore or Fagles or Mandelbaum or Fitzgerald.