
Episode 9: Glittering Bronze Men (Homer's Iliad, Books 1-8)
Literature and History
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Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem. At 300 words a page, it's about 520 pages in length. The book continues to fascinate me now after a doctoral program and after spending time with so many other texts written around the same centuries. When he first read a good translation of the Iliad, John Keats reported a similar experience to mine.
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