I Suppose You to Be No Mean Reader, Since You Intend to Read Homer

Though slow to come, the tale of this achievement will never die. —⁠Iliad, Book I, trans. by Barry Powell   In 1581, when monoglot English speakers first got an opportunity to read some of Homer’s poetry in their own language, this is what he sounded like:   I Thee beseech, O Goddesse mild, The hatefull […]