Homer: A Home For The Epic Poet
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Wilson has a great translation of *Odyssey*, and a great youtube channe. Although I think that the youtube readings are in English I would love to hear Wilson's Homeric Greek.
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I cried every page through this book. I loved it, and it gave my years of reading Homer a really great dusting off. The author loved the source material and love. i haven't read Circe. And probably won't. When an author finds a way into me with such vivid sublimity I would rather accept that one golden moment and let everyone else have the rest.
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Alexander Pope's translation of *The Iliad* is certainly a translation to read, but likely not the first one to read. His preface is a joy for fans of Homer, though.
I just finished Pope's translation of *The Iliad*. I found it very tight to Homer's ancient Greek of the five translations I have read. That said I did not enjoy the Romanization of the Greek gods' names.
An essay about the development of Homeric studies and Milman Parry.
How do different parts of contemporary/modern European nation/state relate to Homer ? One novel would like to add to the discourse.
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As oral poetry needs to be flexible the epithets that Homer used to describe his gods and heroes enabled that metric flexibility. Dive into more parts of Homer's and Athena's favorite: Odysseus.
There is just one moment in the *Iliad* that writing or a hint of what writing was mentioned, and it is a direct reference to the ancient Greek hero Bellerophon's tales. How does this relate to the Homeric Question ?