only Homer, and by extension Emily Wilson, could get me to leave my house on a school night, but it was 100% worth it. the timing of her Iliad release is excellent also b/c it means I can use the Wilson translation this winter when I teach excerpts to my poetry class.
hearing her read out loud was so gripping and I'm hopeful my students, who are not all big readers, will have the same response, and be able to see the poem as the absolutely dynamite piece of storytelling that it is.
