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>it wasn't me! It was the publisher!
Anyone that's published a book ESPECIALLY a translation (where a new translations sales are driven exclusively by either reviews or the publisher's name and retail access) knows this is a very convenient lie that authors use all the time (it has partial truth so no authors will ever call them out and readers believe them because it sounds sensible)
Anyways the cover just signifies the trash that's beneath it, buy my argument or not this:
Sing, Goddess, Achilles’ rage,
Black and murderous, that cost the Greeks
Incalculable pain, pitched countless souls
Of heroes into Hades’ dark,
And left their bodies to rot as feasts
For dogs and birds, as Zeus’ will was done.
Begin with the clash between Agamamenon—
The Greek warlord—and godlike Achilles.
Which of the immortals set thse two
At each other’s throats?
Is not how the Iliad opens and this:
“Hear me, Silverbow, Protector of Chryse,
Lord of Holy Cilla, Master of Tenedos,
And Sminthian God of Plague!
If every I’ve built a temple that pleased you
Or burnt fat thighbones of bulls and goats—
Grant me this prayer:
Let the Danaans pay for my tears with your arrows!”
Is not nearly as poetic as the Greek.
If you wanted Poetry read the Fitzgerald, if you wanted accuracy read the Lattimore. If you want neither: read Lombardo