OTHER reviews of T. E. Shaw’s brilliantly vivid translation of Homer’s Odyssey into English prose will have already appeared, and people will be familiar not only with the author’s remarkable life but ...

The first journal exclusively dedicated to the reception of Greek and Roman antiquity by other cultures, from the ancient world to the present time, International Journal of Classical Tradition's ...

Some epithets are really quite brilliant: wanker, for example, with its intimations of onanistic futility, is one of the best. (But then, the Brits, who invented the term, are so much more elegant ...

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