Daniel Mendelsohn

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599 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 16 Jul

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Chicago has the most prestigious series of classics translations.

They're translations of Greek tragedy or the standard English translation.

I use them myself when I teach Greek tragedy.

And so I it was a little bit intimidating.

I won't pretend that I wasn't and because of Lattimore, which has rightly become and I I know you'll agree with me.

A classic in its own right.

You know, it's one of those translations that has become a classic like

like the Scott Moncrief translation of Proust, you know, for its own language.

It it was both intimidating but

But Lattimore's Iliad gave me the clue about what I should do because Lattimore also has a craggy, long

line much longer than any other translation.

And I thought, okay, you can do this.

And it's also very plain spoken.

He does this sort of archaic diction much more than I do, but I thought, okay, there's a

There's a hint in this somewhere about the

a way you can do this.

So I'm not trying to match his translation, but I certainly wanted to step up to it if at all possible.

Ah, thank you so much.

It's been so great chatting with you.

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