Advice on Reading Homer in Translation
18th September 2024
Best to lean Greek and read it in the original, but hey, whatever works.
[Insert plug for the value of memorizing poetry here.]
The Illiad and the Odyssey were to Greek culture what the Bible is to ours–everybody used (and recognized) a lot of phrases from them and used those phrases in daily life.
How small of all that human hearts endure
The part that laws or kings can cause or cure;
Still to ourselves in every place consign’d,
Our own felicity we make or find.