mel’s Reviews > The Iliad: A New Translation by Caroline Alexander > Status Update

it’s happening💀 goal is 5 books a day. highlights so far:
- “dogface” as an insult
- threat speech: “this will be my great oath: someday a yearning for achilles will come upon [the greeks], every man; then nothing will save you, for all your grief, when at the hands of hector dying men fall in their multitude; and you will rip the heart within you, raging that paid no honor to the best of the acheans.”