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Re:A Translator’s Reckoning with the Women of the Odyssey by trgv on Saturday December 09, 2017 @09:40PM (#15889530)
I agree with you, more or less. I don't think the Odyssey is a complicated story.

But that doesn't have anything to do with this article though, which I rather liked.

> You wanna argue with Tolstoy?

Tolstoy famously described Shakespeare as "insignificant" and didn't understand what all the fuss was about:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lear,_Tolstoy_and_the_Fool

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Re:A Translator’s Reckoning with the Women of the Odyssey by pvg on Saturday December 09, 2017 @09:48PM (#15889559)
Tolstoy also never said the thing quoted in that goodreads page. So it's not an argument with Tolstoy to begin with.
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