Plus Robin Lane Fox’s ‘Homer and His Iliad.’
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https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-iliad-of-homer-review-emily-wilson-makes-achilles-modern-8c82ad5cFresco from Pompeii, Italy, from the first century, showing the entry of the Trojan horse into Troy.The “Iliad,” a poem about war, death and suffering on the plains of Troy, has taken a back seat in recent decades to the other Homeric epic, the “Odyssey,” in some ways its sequel.
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