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wants to read The Odyssey by Homer

The Odyssey (2017, Norton) 5 stars

I've never attempted to read any of Homer's works before, but I recently read an article about Emily Wilson (on Savs' recommendation) and now I'm interested! I like how her translation aims to avoid gratuitous complexity and avoid making things archaic just for the sake of sounding archaic—as she says in the article, "he didn’t sound archaic to the Greeks"!

www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/18/emily-wilson-profile