/lit/ - Literature

I haven't read it yet but I intend to. I've been circling it by reading Mary Renault, Memoirs of Hadrian, the Just City, etc.

Are you a fan of historical fiction in general or is this your first foray into it? Have you read any of Graves's other work?

Anyone who doesn't think Lattimore's translation is the best is effectively retarded.

What do you guys think about the Homeric question?

Personally I think that there was an original Homer but the succession of bards that came after him "refined" the works as they each told them, adjusting them to certain audiences or personal customs. As a whole though, I definitely think there was a Homer who deserves the vast majority of the credit for the Epics.