Trust Me, Assigning Summer Reading Is Totally Pointless I am all for torturing children. As the overlord of a 9 th grade classroom, I forced them to memorize sections of The Aeneid , socked them with the one-two punch of The Odyssey and The Iliad and finished them off on a Shakespearian rack. Let them suffer, I say.
June 13, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire
Paul Muldoon in Leading The Charge He was a quiet man, diligent and decorous, yet one who was unexpectedly equal to the swagger and savagery of Homer's 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey' in a way no one had managed before him,Princeton humanities professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet...
Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Daily News & Analysis (blog) He says, "If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of (strongly built) typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them would come out with an exact version of the Iliad".Having said this, Taleb asks "Now...
Georgi Kitov in Sofia Echo The unique mask looks even better than the famous image of King Agamemnon, the Greek anti-hero described by Homer in the Iliad,Kitov said after making the discovery.