Arts & Entertainment

Stephen Mitchell Talks about The Iliad

Stephen Mitchell talks about The Iliad. The power of The Iliad resounds again across 2,700 years in Mitchell’s exciting new translation, as if the life blood of its heroes Achilles and Patroclus, Hector and Priam flowed in every word. And we are there with them, carried along by a poetry that lifts even the most devastating human events into the realm of the beautiful.


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