Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival,

three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized

tent. Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend.

All right.

Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior.

And don't get us started on Mel.

But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together.

All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat. Keep everyone's plans alive when you

travel with us. P, and O'Ferees, there is another way. This is CBS I on the World with John Bachelor.

Here's John Bachelor.

Professor Emily Wilson, University of Pennsylvania, her new work is The Iliad.

I-Homer, translated here in the 21st century with all of the nuance of Greek translated into the nuance of modern English

with iambic pentameter as the choice by the professor to help it to help us read it

not only silently on the page, but also allowed to ourselves and also to listen

to the reading of Audrey McDonald, the actress and opera singer, whose range of voice helps a deal.

And I believe Professor influences my attention to the female characters, because hearing it

read by a woman with that range of voice, you

immediately hear the whispering going on and the doubts and the hesitations.

But we get to the plot. The plot begins with Agamemnon, the leader of the Greeks, nine years

into the Siege of Troy, and he has offended Achilles. What did he do, Professor? How has Achilles taken up this

rage that will eventually be his undoing.

So all the leaders of the Greeks in the Greek encampment which are besieging

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