could never get through Book 1, because for me the music of these verse translations never had the interest or the power that I knew was in story, and so I had the sense that if I could immerse myself in the Greek and really become intimate with it that I would be able to hear a different kind of music that would be fulfilling at least for me. And in my experience when I'm satisfied with something, there is a large enthusiastic public.from Jeffrey Brown: PBS: Newshour: Conversation: Stephen Mitchell, Author of the New Translation of Homer's 'The Iliad'
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