To a certain extent, it’s a book that you don’t have to read any more because everybody’s already read it for you.
if:book: cheap editions past and present
That’s a very good description of a certain kind of books (The Odyssey, in this case). I sometimes feel it would be much better if Oxford forced its humanities students to learn Latin, or at least give them a compulsory crash-course in the classical tradition. Then I imagine doing that course, and shudder.
