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Emily Wilson Wants to Make You Cry
Esquire via Yahoo News· 7 months agoEmily Wilson Wants to Make You CrySarah Kim Few names loom larger over literature than Homer. The great blind bard was purported to have lived some 2,700...
The Iliad Is Grim, Bloody, and Packed With Heroes. Are We Ready to Love It Again?
Slate via Yahoo News· 7 months ago“The Fight for the Body of Patroclus,” illustration from The Iliad for Boys and Girls, Alfred John...
If it’s all Greek to you, Emily Wilson’s new translation of ‘The Iliad’ may be worth a read
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 7 months agoIs ‘Iliad’ a difficult read? What is the main story of ‘The Iliad’? What is ‘The Iliad’? How long is...
'Odyssey' exhibit offers new way to think about epic
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWhen you enter Lisa Bachman Jones’, “The Odyssey: A Retelling,” on view in Nashville Parthenon’s East Gallery, it may feel as though you’ve drifted out...
Stephanie McCarter recommends 6 translations of Greek and Roman literature
The Week via Yahoo News· 1 year agoStephanie McCarter. Courtesy Image Stephanie McCarter, a classics professor at the University of the...
The week's bestselling books, October 8
LA Times via Yahoo News· 7 months ago(Los Angeles Times) Hardcover fiction 1. Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (Harper: $30) At a Michigan orchard, a woman tells her three daughters about a long-ago...
On the trail of Homer’s heroes in Greece
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 months agoAs I sheltered from the pale winter sun in the shade of Mycenae’s Lion Gate, I had never felt closer to Homer’s Iliad – and the Greek heroes of the...
Fall books: Britney and Barbra's memoirs are among major releases, but political books are fewer
AP Finance via Yahoo Finance· 8 months agoOne year ahead of the 2024 election, don't expect many new books about the presumed front-runners,...
