Homer Inc
Edward Luttwak, 23 February 2012
The Iliad by Homer
translated by Stephen Mitchell.
Weidenfeld, 463 pp., £25, October 2011,978 0 297 85973 4 Show More
translated by Stephen Mitchell.
Weidenfeld, 463 pp., £25, October 2011,
“... rhythmic Richmond Lattimore with a lengthy new introduction;* and three hardback copies of the new Stephen Mitchell translation, with refulgent golden shields on the cover and several endorsements on the back, of which the most arresting is by Jaron Lanier, author of You Are Not a Gadget: ‘The poetry rocks and has a macho cast to it, like rap ... ”