Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder.

Wish you were here.

Follow the price of Pennsylvania.

Her new work is The Iliad by Homer, nearly 2,800, 2,700 years ago.

However, imagine this book being read by 2,700 years

of scholars and students and how each century comes to it with its own assumptions,

modernity each time. And we now come to the battle scenes which the professor has rendered into English

with great vividness at the same time it's gory it's extremely gory

Homer wanted you to know how each of these men died and why.

Professor, in translating the gore, you have, I mentioned earlier from your notes, you talked about the word spear.

The sounds of the battle you also consulted men and women who have been in combat

what did you learn from them about how to render the Greek into English?

I found it fascinating to hear from veterans,

partly because they had so much of a more visceral, I think, understanding than many people

of how important it is to sort of wrestle with this question of what to do about the dead.

I mean, most of us don't encounter dead bodies in our daily lives but people who've

been in combat may well have had this very shocking experience of his either an enemy

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