andrewducker | Interesting Links for 14-01-2018

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I read a really good book on the Homeric epics last year. Lots of good stuff on the origin and what happened to the stories after they were created.

Buggered if I can remember the name of it off the top of my head.

I'm looking forward to the translation mentioned above.

andrewducker

I've ordered a copy. You can read it after me if you like.

That would be splendid thank you.

anef

I got the book for Christmas and I'm very much looking forward to reading it. In the Iliad and other literature it is very clear that Odysseus is crafty and clever, and in many ways not at all an ideal hero figure except that of course he is courageous and a mighty warrior. I'm looking forward to the translation reflecting that ambiguity.

I've always been fond of the Robert Graves retelling, Homer's Daughter, which says well, what if the Odyssey were written by a woman?

Very cool, if true

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