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Well, I've finally finished reading the Samuel Butler translation of Homer's Iliad, thank God!
To be honest I found it bloodthirsty, descriptive, repetitive and very, very boring! I persevered though and managed to get through it in three weeks by interspersing it with some chick lit. Maybe it was my choice of translation that made it so boring, I'd love to be able to read the original version but my smattering of modern Greek won't stretch to that.
I will try the Odyssey some time but I think I deserve a rest from classics for a while!
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