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In The New Yorker , Gary Wills, a classicist by training, praises Robert Fagles' translation of The Odyssey ("Fagles is the best living translator of ancient Greek drama, lyric poetry, and epic into modern English, and [ The Odyssey ] ...
--I might be a classicist today.
At times his "pride and petulance" became intolerable, writes classicist Robert Graves in The Greek Myths . In Mythology , Edith Hamilton writes, "He is represented as falling in love with one woman after another and descending to all manner of tricks to hide his infidelity from his wife."
Other essays include: "Edible Ecriture," by British Marxist Terry Eagleton, which argues that Samuel Beckett's anorexic prose may betray "a race memory of the Irish famine"; and "Savouring the Antique," by classicist Emily Gower, which warns against romanticizing the Roman bacchanalia, since "most ordinary people experienced famine and lived at subsistence level."
Robert Fagles, a Princeton classicist, translated The Iliad in 1990 and sold an astonishing 140,000 paperback copies of his version.