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Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions.For our next book together we have chosen a victorian novel. I suppose we should, but we are not yet going to read the Aeneid. Even if I knew what would happen it was very exciting to read and to encounter the story and characters (Telemachus, Penelope) first hand. In fact, only a few chapters of that occur and a lot of it happens when he returns to Ithaca. Like The Iliad, it is surprising what stays in popular culture from the original text: the work is not about Odysseus’s travels. I liked it more than The Iliad as I found it more poetic, more beautiful and less run by the gods, even if Athena features a fair amount. He has conscience and love and all these traits and feelings made the story so much nicer to read. I love Odysseus, especially because, in my head, he speaks with a Sean Bean accent. Neil and I read The Iliad in order to read Emily Wilson’s translation of the Odyssey and she did not disappoint. The Odyssey (Emily Wilson’s translation) by Homer*****
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