I just got to the part where Aphrodite and Ares decide to LARP the battlefield and Athena and Diomedes send them whining to Zeus on Olympus like "DAAAAD make Athena leave us alone!" and Athena is like "what, she scratched herself on a dress pin, I wasn't touching her"
@Annalee I haven't read her Iliad yet, but her Odyssey is fantastic. It really brings the text to life like no other translation I've read. It's really the best thing I can point to for people who don't want to learn Ancient Greek (which is fun, but kind of a commitment, yeah?)
@q_aurelius@Annalee I also loved her Odyssey, and have been known to recommend simply the translator’s note in that to people. But I just couldn’t make it through the Iliad. Not her fault, the source material just… doesn’t work for me.
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