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| The Iliad still matters. |
We tend to think of canonical literature as static. The more established a work, the more ossified we're likely to consider it. If you imagine Homer right now, you're probably picturing him as a marble bust -- turned to stone and put on a pedestal. But even the most canonical text is really a shifting, mutable thing. In this podcast from The New Yorker, Daniel Mendelsohn talks with Blake Eskin about a new translation of the Iliad, our evolving views on the epic's authorship, and what both say about contemporary society (Hint: it has something to do with the internet).
Listen to the podcast here: The Homeric Wars: A Podcast with Daniel Mendelsohn: The New Yorker
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