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Lotus-Eaters share a plant that makes those who eat it forget all thoughts of going home. In
Emily Wilson • The Odyssey
classicist Emily Wilson describes in her recent translation of the Iliad as perhaps the most beautiful technique drawn from the oral poetic tradition — the extended simile. “Similes, like catalogs,” she says, “allow the narrative to contain far more worlds within itself than we might expect, including domestic activities in peacetime, vivid descrip... See more
Sally Mallam • The Oral Tale
A Room of One’s Own,
Madeline Miller • CIRCE
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Samantha Harvey • Orbital
