Sep 01 2008
The Illiad
I have two copies of The Iliad. My first one is a paperback version of the Robert Fagles translation. I’ve written all over it. In my freshman year, I started by identifying the Achaeans as “Greeks” in the margins, and I’ve continued to deface it since then by underlining and highlighting every piece of information that I could possibly want for a paper. It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that I’ve marked on every page – as a Classics student, I’ve written quite a few papers referencing The Iliad. It looks almost like a medieval book, with equal parts ancient text and my own glose in purple pen.
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