War Music: Homer and His Iliad

Re:War Music: Homer and His Iliad by jstanley on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @08:41AM (#37061764)

Thankfully the original work is now out of copyright, and there is an English translation here: https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Ilhome.php

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Re:War Music: Homer and His Iliad by nerdponx on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @11:17AM (#37063994)

I was talking about the book being reviewed, which seems to be an analysis of the Iliad by Robin Lane Fox, rather than the Iliad itself.

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Re:War Music: Homer and His Iliad by dendodge on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @01:29PM (#37065967)

> Thankfully the original work is now out of copyright

Seeing someone explicitly assert the copyright status of a text pushing 3 millennia old is somehow very amusing to me

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