CLASSICS WEEK Homer’s The Iliad has been one of those books that I’d never read but always meant to ‘get around to it.’ When I saw this ARC for a new translation I thought it might spur me on, but even so it’s been ten years! Finally, though, I devoted time to this reading and Continue reading

In a small village in La Mancha, Spain, the noble Alonso Quijano has become completely consumed by the stories he’s read of knights and their valiant chivalry and so he imagines himself one of these knight, renames himself Don Quixote, and with his loyal servant Sancho Panza, sets off on a series of (mis)adventures, battling imaginary Continue reading

Somehow I managed to get through high school and college without ever having read The Aeneid.  I’m happy to have finally corrected that. Inspired by Homer’s slightly better-known, more familiar works, Virgil’s The Aeneid takes the hero, Aeneas, a survivor of the fall of Troy, and tells his story of war and defeat, his loves and passion, and Continue reading