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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
So what does the future hold for group reading of the classics? Or is everyone still coming to completion on The Iliad?
I would be up for the The Odyssey in the near future. That and at some point the Seamus Heaney translation of Beowulf that I recently finished. Great read, though even with obtaining the bilingual edition with the Old English side by side with the modern was not revealing in understanding the original text. Any Anglo-Saxon scholars out there to match our Latin and Greek experts? Interesting bit of information I did not know before reading the introduction. The only reason we even know of the epic Beowulf is from a single copy that survived the Middle Ages. And that copy was almost destroyed by fire in 1731.
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Yes, that is absolutely astonishing isn't it - mind you, the odds on
any piece of text surviving the vicissitudes of climate, environmental, political and social upheaval that work has, are incredibly high.