I definitely am with you! The Iliad wasn’t my favorite the last time I read it, but I had to read it as an assignment for class, and as well I did not have Fagles last time. I’m planning to reread it later on this year. 🙂

Fights like a man? oh my, I love her! I once wrote a paper about how H&A were the personification of CS Lewis’ Four Loves. I don’t have any idea what I said, though, I think I just wanted to use Lewis.

Yeah, in the steam tunnels there is a graffito that’s the first verse of the Iliad in the original Greek, and Janet asks Robin (I think), to read it. When someone asks for it in English, he recites Chapman’s Homer. I fell in love with it.

Oh, I hope you like Latin! Eight years isn’t as impressive as it sounds, really – three of them were in middle school, which took very very little effort. But I just loved it. It’s so great and fun! Do come back here & tell me you (hopefully) liked it.

Does Pamela Dean mention Chapman? I can’t remember her doing.

I am in strong support of your right-minded opinion of Hector. Hector! (And Andromache!)

“Muse, tell me of the man of many wiles,
the man who wandered many paths of exile
after he sacked Troy’s sacred citadel.
He saw the cities–mapped the minds–of many;
and on the sea, his spirit suffered every
adversity–to keep his life intact,
to bring his comrades back.”

It is amazing to know that you studied Latin for eight years! That is awesome – Hats off to you 🙂 I tried studying Ancient Greek last year, on my own, but found it extremely tough and have postponed it for a while. Am trying to learn some elementary Latin this year, and it is looking better 🙂

I went *on* him from that film. It was the first time I’d seen him act–as opposed exhibiting his profile to the camera while nocking arrows. Poor boy. Nice to know he can.

I had a pretty rubbish teacher myself, too, and were it not for your post it never would have occurred to me to reread The Odyssey. Now I find myself glancing at my TBR pile and imagining it in the stack . . . somewhere near the top . . . 🙂

Ugh, that sounds horrible 🙁 I do not function well this time of year myself, so I am full of sympathy for you.

I’ve always been a bit of a mythology geek, so that wasn’t the hard part. Remembering to focus on the text and not what I knew of other versions and re-writes was tricky though.