A new translation of the Iliad is causing much more of a stir than you’d think. For good reason. Do you enjoy the layers of meaning one word can have and other subtleties of translation? I took a look at what people are saying and put it together for you.
There have been some successful onstage versions of the Iliad lately. This one definitely caught my attention–aerial display, music, a new interpretation.
Here’s my weekly roundup of posts I enjoyed: The New Yorker objects to comparing the war of the Iliad to modern war, a fantasy story by Beth Cato, mapping fictional worlds and Mesopotamian beer-Enkibru anyone?
Some posts I enjoyed this week around the web: Cynthia Robertson on what makes a book brilliant, Bronze Age find in Britain preserved liked Pompeii, what the Iliad tells us about war from Caroline Alexander, Maya royal burial at El Zotz and book humor.
Posts from around the web that I enjoyed this week: speculation about the Amphipolis tomb as commemorating Hephaistion, Caroline Alexander’s new translation of the Iliad and an open access collection of gorgeous Greek museum books fr Latsis Foundation, the latest is Mycenae.
Reminder of AZ HNS meeting Sat Nov 7 with Donis Casey on Dialogue. Posts I enjoyed this week: Unplundered Mycenaean tombs, underwater archaeology uncovers 22 shipwrecks, the whole Iliad performed
My favorite posts around the web: history of cooking, why read the Classics, writing & historical fiction, archaeology in Turkey.
