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Although the Robert Fagles translation is modern, popular, and easy to understand if you've never studied Greek, Richmond Lattimore's classic translation captures the feeling of the original Greek more accurately.
More than the epic poetry of the Iliad and the Odyssey, what makes me most fond of Homer was his tendency to get lost in his own thoughts; indeed, Homer even died because he slipped while trying to solve the riddle, "What we caught we threw away, and what we didn?t catch we kept." I wonder if he realized the answer is "fleas" before he died.
