Word: iliad
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Three books, so the story goes, were on the desk of TIME'S editor when TIME'S first issue went to press - the Bible, Xenophon's Anabasis, and the Iliad...
...three, the Iliad seemed to have the most immediate influence on TIME writing. Homer's "wine-dark sea" and "far-darting Apollo" were the parents of "jampacked bowl," "spade-bearded anthropologist" and many another space-saving phrase in TIME...
...newest translation of the Iliad stands among the best ever made. It is the only one ever carried through in an English equivalent of the Greek epic meter...
...lines like these the new translation attains something like the directness which the Iliad had for those who first listened...
...German texts, clung round the generation of U.S. classicists to which these men, with their degrees from Göttingen and Leipzig, belonged. Good translation, or even a reasonable fluency at writing English, were not among its ambitions. But Smith and Miller achieved a good translation. Their Iliad is published without scholarly notes or impediments and with Flaxman's beautiful 18th-Century drawings as illustrations...