tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post8882452977373788573..comments2024-03-28T10:20:44.291-07:00Comments on Sacnoth's Scriptorium: C. S. Lewis's New BookJohn D. Rateliffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-4843677663483163542011-05-09T07:57:55.958-07:002011-05-09T07:57:55.958-07:00Heh, well, not being an Ancient Greek, fun though ...Heh, well, not being an Ancient Greek, fun though the Iliad is, I prefer the Odyssey, too. I remember a pleasant cruise through the Eastern Med a few years back, lounging in a deck chair with my drink and listening to the McKellen-read audio book of the Fagles translation. (Always have meant to learn Homeric Greek, but haven't yet got around to it ....)Carl Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08088507380154524745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-12094323746775471582011-04-21T16:54:45.782-07:002011-04-21T16:54:45.782-07:00And now the book itself has arrived -- in record t...And now the book itself has arrived -- in record time, my having only ordered it on Tuesday the 19th! Looks good; looking forward to a chance to read it when I clear out two refuse-to-let-me-finish-reading-them books already in-progress, Sayers' LETTERS TO A DIMINISHED CHURCH and Chesterton's WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE WORLD.<br /><br />Jason: re. ODYSSEY, I'd say it has much more appeal to modern tastes -- esp. those of us who like fantasy. But this is a relatively recent shift: there's no doubt whatsoever that the ancient Greeks prized THE ILIAD above all others, with ODYSSEY in an honored but definitely secondary place. This was still the case as recently as the eighteenth century; sometime between Pope and Addison on the one hand and Tennyson on the other THE ODYSSEY overtook it. That's my take on things, anyway, not having looked into it in any detail aside from my work on the history of fantasy.<br /><br />--JDRJohn D. Rateliffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-52106924405526737402011-04-20T13:44:11.445-07:002011-04-20T13:44:11.445-07:00Doesn't everyone prefer The Odyssey to The Ili...Doesn't <i>everyone</i> prefer <i>The Odyssey</i> to <i>The Iliad</i>? :) Over many years and many re-readings, I've come to appreciate <i>The Iliad</i> more and more, even to like it quite a bit, but <i>The Odyssey</i> is just a far better <i>story</i>!Jason Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05809154870762268253noreply@blogger.com