The Iliad We've Lost.

EMILY WILSON'S TRANSLATION of The Iliad is an Iliad for the masses, written in English verse legible to people who do not normally read verse. Culture & Critics Early in Norman Mailer's Harlot's Ghost, perhaps the greatest novel about an American bureaucracy, the narrator describes a most unbureaucratic figure, a Maine fisherman named Snowman Dyer who died in 1870 in his sister's home. Her Iliad follows her translation of The Odyssey six years ago, which was overpraised for having been written by a woman - women have been translating Homer for centuries - and praised just the right amount for having revivified Homer and made that poem readable to a new generation. After the Iliad's climactic duel between Hector and Achilles, the Greeks touch Hector's once-fearsome corpse, find it softly human, and say, "o popoi.". [Extracted from the article]