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Art Beat | PBS NewsHour | PBS







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"The rage of Achilles-


-sing it now, goddess, sing through me."





Art Beat | PBS NewsHour | PBS:
"Conversation: Stephen Mitchell, Author of the New Translation of Homer's 'The Iliad'"


Related articles
  • Rhetoric and the Iliad (guardian.co.uk)
  • On Homer, fine-tuning 'The Iliad' and being the rock star of translators (macleans.ca)
  • Translators past, present and future, a new Iliad, and Greek humor (patrickcox.wordpress.com)
  • Daniel Mendelsohn: Stephen Mitchell's translation of Homer's Iliad. (newyorker.com)
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