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Originally Posted by sun surfer
I think the title may have confused you...are you thinking of Homer's Odyssey? I'm talking about James Joyce's Ulysses, which was structured around the Odyssey, hence why I put that wordplay into the title. But if it's any consolation, I did read the Odyssey a year or two ago, and I think I did read the Lattimore if it's the one that sticks close in translation and I liked it a lot.
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It caught me, too. And I also thought back to the Lattimore translation of The Odyssey that I read, wondering what the big deal was about. I was much more impressed about the finishing of Joyce's book, since I couldn't get past about four pages when I tried long ago.