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> Homer had visited windy Troy on a clear day when distant Samothrace was visible … I like to think he had walked south, like Chryses, beside the shore of the b
by nerdponx 3y ago
> Homer had visited windy Troy on a clear day when distant Samothrace was visible … I like to think he had walked south, like Chryses, beside the shore of the booming sea
This passage sounds a lot like the writing style of the ancient classics. I assume the reviewer chose it on purpose for that reason. I don't know that I need to read this book, but I appreciate that apparently it's a work of passion and enthusiasm.
- jstanley 3y agoThankfully the original work is now out of copyright, and there is an English translation here: https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Ilhome.php https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Ilhome.php
- nerdponx 3y agoI was talking about the book being reviewed, which seems to be an analysis of the Iliad by Robin Lane Fox, rather than the Iliad itself.
- dendodge 3y ago> Thankfully the original work is now out of copyright Seeing someone explicitly assert the copyright status of a text pushing 3 millennia old is somehow very amusing to me