Andrew Luck: Colts quarterback, weird congratulator, team librarian
What do professional football players talk about in their locker rooms? If they play for the Indianapolis Colts, it might very well be the Napoleonic wars or the Iliad (“the funny… Read more »
To be and not to have been: kill lists and poetry
When a writer or a translator strips a well-known work down to its essence, as Alice Oswald had done with The Iliad in Memorial, the narrative takes on almost new meaning. In… Read more »
Iliad date is confirmed, thanks to science
How do you date a text from roughly 8 B.C.E.? You track it like a geneticist. “Languages behave just extraordinarily like genes,” says Mark Pagel, an evolutionary theorist at the… Read more »
Take it to the mat, and bring some books with you
Can you wrestle and read at the same time? Better still, can you make a wrestler read? As if America’s youth did not have enough challenges facing them, WrestleMania has… Read more »
Sing it again, Goddess: Do we really need a new translation of the Iliad?
With three new translations of The Iliad plus a new edition of Richmond Lattimore’s classic 1951 translation due out this month, The Economist wonders if it’s all really necessary. The article… 3 / Read more »